Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

Subject: Re: LZ: Weird Trick...
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:35:36 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <32473C5B.68AB@ntsource.com>

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Peter Cordes wrote:


> 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


Thanks.  I realized that when I saw another reference to it.
I wasn't paying attention.  Senility, I suppose.  :)


Barry

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