Tis true.
The figuring out part wasn't much work, all you need is an AOM alpha or AOM beta CD, look in the Game.con file and you'll find those lines there. Put them in your own user.con file and now you can flip the units and stuff.
Yeah EO discovered It, the "Patch" there has all the user.cfg and user.con hacks (that work) up to date (accept 2, the patrol and guard hotkey), half of them aren't by me, I said that in the readme and gave respects to the original finders.