This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Minesweeper solver
Article: 7815 of alt.hackers From: cpierce1@cp500.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Minesweeper solver Date: 13 May 1995 01:37:10 GMT Organization: ECC at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn Michigan Lines: 27 Approved: Ren Hoeck Distribution: world Message-ID: 3p12g6$9k@eccdb1.pms.ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cp500.fsic.ford.com X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Status: RO
nriley@roadrunner.tiac.net (Nicholas Riley) writes:
: In article <3oqm77$j2c@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>,
cpierce1@cp500.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) wrote:
:
: >The cheat has been out for some time. It's a "xyzzy" key
sequence (I'm not
: >going to give it out COMPLETELY--this is alt.hackers) and a colored
dot will
:
: This "xyzzy" thing has been popping up everywhere...I was reading
the ProTERM
: _xyzzy i
"xyzzy" was the "God Code" of the first real aventure
game "Advent". It's
use since then is kind of a tribute.
Drat, now I need an...
ObHack:
After the hood-release cord broke on my ancient Subaru (it broke near the
firewall), I retrieved what was left of the cord from the car's body and
threaded it behind the grill. Then I tied the handle on the end and
Presto! Working hood-release. Yeah, you had to grope around under the
bumper to find the stupid handle...
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