Category : Word Processors
Archive   : HSHELL3.ZIP
Filename : EXAMPLE.XAM

 
Output of file : EXAMPLE.XAM contained in archive : HSHELL3.ZIP
'Comments start with ' character

'Question lines start with q: or Q:
q:How many teeth has a parrot got
~twenty four
*none
~two
~twelve
r:It hasn't got any teeth, its got a beak

'there can be one reference or remark line, starting with r: or R:

q:what do you get if you cross a sheep
with a kangaroo
~a rabbit
~a lot of worried sheep dogs
*a woolly jumper
~none of these
r:Old joke

'There can be up to four lines of question
'and five possible answers
Q:how many guns are there in a television
when it isn't showing a Western,
a gangster film, Miami Vice or
the A team
~one
~two
*three
~four
~none at all
R:One for each primary colour in the Cathode ray tube

'There can be any number of questions, but they must
'not contain semi-colons, dollar signs, or action modifier
'chars in the first few chars of a line

q:Who wrote 'Three men in a boat'
~Arthur Ransome
*Jerome K Jerome
~Dickens
~Tolstoy
r:There was a dog called Montmerency as well



  3 Responses to “Category : Word Processors
Archive   : HSHELL3.ZIP
Filename : EXAMPLE.XAM

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/