Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

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Re: LZ: Weird Trick...

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Eric Linenberg wrote:


> On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:56:36 -0500, you wrote:
> >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
> 
> you can go 
> hexview->A
> hexview->B
> and now A and B will be in the zshell menu


Or you could probably use the +, -, and sub commands to install cheats in 
games!!!!


> Eric Linenberg
> elinenbe@umich.edu
> 
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> 




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