Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

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Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

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've discovered this as well... to answer your question (no pun intended:),
Ans becomes whatever type of variable the last answer was.  Of course, this
does take up the same amount of RAM as the program itself...


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