|1-THE SECRETS OF AMOS PRO REVEALED!



                        dISCoVERED bY ßudda/NFA

Whilst  putting  the  finishing  touches  to  my latest AMOS creations I
stumbled  across  some  amazingly clever secret messages which are built
into  the  AMOS  Professional  system Help accessory.  I usually use the
Help  option to check up on syntax of certain commands which I don't use
regularly.

The  amazing  thing  first  happened  a  few  weeks  ago  and I couldn't
understand  were  it  came  from.   When  I  pressed the HELP key during
editing one of my programs a message appeared saying:

|1-"The worlds best programmer!"



It confused me!  I quit out of the Help accessory and then reloaded it -
and  the  message  had  gone!!   I  wondered  how I had activated it but
couldn't  think  of  anything  so  forgot  about it.  Then yesterday the
messages returned.  This time there was more and all different!

The  new  message  read "Queens Park Rangers".  What was it to mean?  At
first  I thought the messages were activated when your text cursor is in
a  certain  position along a certain line.  And this seemed to work in a
single piece of source code.  But when I tried it in another program I'd
written the message wouldn't appear.

Then  earlier  today (28/06/1995) I found some more messages.  The first
was a long one and read:

"The young TV star has this to say about his football team:  Queens Park
Rangers are a super team!  They'll never win anything though..."

What was the obsession with Q.P.R then?
However  this  message didn't come up at ceratin positions in the editor
window.   It  just  kept  popping  up  all over the place.  Then another
message  appeared  saying  "The  only  man  to  burn  a hole in a QWERTY
keyboard.".  These messages are strange!

However  I think I've found how to get the last message up all the time.
It  was  to do with the commands on the line the cursor was on.  It also
depended in what position the text cursor was in.

I entered this on a new blank line:
|2-Add ME UP






Then I put the cursor between the ADD and the ME so it was in the space!
I  then  pressed  the  HELP key and it popped up; a message about QWERTY
keyboards!!!

Now  I  can't remember what I was doing when I got the other messages up
so I can't tell you how too.  I wrote this article so ask any other AMOS
Pro  users if they've found ANY other messages in the Help system; or am
I  the  only  one?  Please write in and reveal any other findings linked
with  the Help accessory.  Either send your findings to "Sauce `N' Code"
or as an article to "The Word".
^19^^265








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  This article was `LENT' from "Sauce `N' Code" Issue #2 by ßudda/NFA
             for use in "The Word" Issue #7.  I'm too kind!
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