Re: LZ: Weird Trick...


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Re: LZ: Weird Trick...



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.
> 
> jyuschak@i21.com
that is just because Ans has what is in Hexview in it because you did
the sub(hexview,1,299) and ZShell looks for any and all ZShell strings
regardless of what their verible name is. also you could have typed in
just hexview at the home screen and it would have done the same thing.
PCoMP
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