Re: LZ: Weird Trick...
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I have also had this happen, but I'm at a loss to explain it.
At 04:29 PM 9/23/96 -0400, you 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
>
>
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