Re: LZ: Weird Trick...
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> I have also had this happen, but I'm at a loss to explain it.
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> [Way of copying Hexview snipped]
The ANS variable changes types dynamically (thats why you can't have
anything like ZShell after it in memory). If you type 15+8, 23 is
displayed on the screen (surprisingly :) and it is also stored in
ANS. This means that ANS becomes a REAL. However, if you type
"Hello", Hello is displayed ANS becomes a STRING. So if you type
Hexview (or sub(Hexview,1,299); they do the same thing), it displays
the actual machine code stored in the string, therefore making ANS a
STRING and storing a copy of Hexview in there. When you run ZShell,
all it does is search for all of the STRING type variables and checks
if they contain ZShell programs. If so, it displays them.
Also, Hexview->A copies Hexview into A and into ANS, creating two new
ZShell programs.
Sorry for rambling ;), but I hope it helped.
Ben
shakal@ns.net
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