Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

Subject: Re: LZ: Weird Trick...
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:38:43 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <01BBA96C.A3884700@JYuschak>

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

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