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Re: How do you get the command.txt easter egg in Hellfire to work?

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From: Ashen Shugar
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:20
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I think it was "~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoo.com.au> that wrote
something like...

>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> "cowquest; theoquest; bardtest; barbariantest; nestart;" is what I've
>>> typed and it just doesn't work with Hellfire 1.01. Is there a trick
>>> to getting this working?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>  Jamie Kahn Genet
>>
>> NM, it turns out Windows XP uses hidden file extensions that don't
>> show up even in the file's properties. Amazingly bad design...
>> *shakes head*
>
>Umm, you can unhide file extensions (for known file types) in folder 
>properties. I'm fairly sure I've had the above working in Hellfire on XP. 
>(Oh, you know you typo'd "netstart" right?)
>
>Cheers,

And you can also right click on the file, choose to change the file
extension and pick what extensions you want from a drop down list.
It'll even do that auto-complete thing.  At least the version of XP on
the laptop at work does that.  My computer here isn't, but that may
just be because I'm not hiding the file extensions.
Ashen Shugar
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From: deathsabyss@yahoo.com.au (Ashen Shugar)
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Subject: Re: How do you get the command.txt easter egg in Hellfire to work?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:20:40 GMT
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