What can this message indicate?

[Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]

HPe3000 PowerHouse 8.19 C3

"Parser Error: Syntax errorParser Error: Syntax error"

Yet the routine worked! I am running the following from a file as redirected
input:

QUIZ<QUIZIN

Here is the QUIZIN file:

SET NOWARN NOPRINT NOSTATISTICS NOLIST
ACCESS PHC-CODE
CHOOSE PHC-KEY "HISTRYE"
DEFINE HISTDATE CHARACTER * 62 = &
    "SETVAR ARCHDATE " + PHC-INFO[1:8]
REPORT SUMMARY HISTDATE
SET SUBFILE NAME ARCHHIST &
    TEMPORARY NODICTIONARY
GO
EXIT

Thanks.
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Leonard S. Berkowitz
Perot Health Care Systems
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
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