what is the meaning of the following line

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Re: what is the meaning of the following line by Lu. (Hermit) on Jan 17, 2008 at 13:21 UTC
typeset is an Unix shell command, and the rest of your code is also shell syntax. If you found it in a Perl script, it most likely appears in a system call. Lu.	[reply]
Re: what is the meaning of the following line by hipowls (Curate) on Jan 17, 2008 at 09:56 UTC
Gibberish? Just because it looks like line noise doesn't mean it's perl. Perhaps you would like to provide some context such as where it came from and what you think it should do.	[reply]
Re: what is the meaning of the following line by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2008 at 09:46 UTC
Typesetting	[reply]