runes

1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to

parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a

language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as

line noise, but close.

Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.

2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half

graphics on an IBM PC).

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