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I don't know this code so it might just be that I don't understand.

: The first four knock indicates the row (A F L Q V), so you establish the Q row. Then after a pause, three knocks indicates which column of the Q-row (Q R S T U), for S. row 4, column 3 = S. ~ [[User:Robin Lionheart|Röbin Liönheart]] ([[User talk:Robin Lionheart|talk]]) 15:39, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

== Jack London refernce ==

In the early part of [[The Star Rover]] by London, prisoners communicate by an constantly changing version of a tap code.

From chapter 5:

<blockquote>The matter was easy of explanation. I had known, as every prisoner in San Quentin knew, that the two men in solitary were Ed Morrell and Jake Oppenheimer. And I knew that these were the two men who tapped knuckle-talk to each other and were punished for so doing.

That the code they used was simple I had not the slightest doubt, yet I devoted many hours to a vain effort to work it out. Heaven knows—it had to be simple, yet I could not make head nor tail of it. And simple it proved to be, when I learned it; and simplest of all proved the trick they employed which had so baffled me. Not only each day did they change the point in the alphabet where the code initialled, but they changed it every conversation, and, often, in the midst of a conversation.

Thus, there came a day when I caught the code at the right initial, listened to two clear sentences of conversation, and, the next time they talked, failed to understand a word. But that first time!</blockquote>