Re: LZ: Weird Trick...


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Re: LZ: Weird Trick...



barrym wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, John Yuschak wrote:
> 
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > I just want a bit of your time to try out this trick (or bug). Tell me if it works (I hope it does). Do these steps:
> >
> > 1) Take a shell program you will use. We'll use "Hexview".
> > 2) Go into the Strings menu, and find out the length. In this case, 299.
> > 3) Type in this to look at the file: "sub(hexview,1,299)"
> > 4) A line of junk will appear at the next line. This is the file it self. Push left and right to scroll.
> > 5) Now the string is also stored as "Ans"
> > 6) Go into the ZShell menu, and BAM! One program looks just like the other, except instead of reading "Hexview", it reads "Ans"!
> >
> > I think this is because the variable "Ans" contains the same value as "Hexview". But isn't "Ans" a different TYPE of variable? Thanx for your time.
> 
> I get a "Type Error" message, which is what I would expect in
> this situation.  Also, Hexview is 855 bytes on my 83.  Are you
> sure you have a working copy of Hexview on board?
> 
> Barry
he means the hexviewer for the zshell not the ti-83
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