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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!execnet!execnet![jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com]
- From: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
- Subject: there is no decompile
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.815.7301@execnet>
- Reply-To: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
- Organization: Executive Networks Information
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 21 Jan 93 02:49:02 EST
- Lines: 28
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- GB::>Actually, I have found that using the Finnish version of the 80386
- ::>processor and the Finnish version of DOS greatly contributes to
- ::>reverse engineering Finnish programs. I have to admit, though, that
- ::>programs written in Arabic have me stumped. Any suggestions?
-
- Recall that the Arabic language is written right-to-left, as
- opposed to left-to-right like the vast majority of Western
- languages. Obviously, you will have to start your decompile of
- Arabic programs at the _end_, rather than the beginning.
- Furthermore, the shape of Arabic letters is dependent on what
- letters precede and follow the letter being examined, and which
- form those letters are taking. Hence, a single-pass decompiler
- is unlikely to work. Note that using the Arabic version of DOS
- and the '386 will not be sufficient, as most Arabic computers,
- being made in the U.S. or Japan, have an English mode available,
- which your English decompiler will use by default.
-
- As a side remark, to get your decompiler to work on Hebrew
- programs, you will have to copy the Arabic compiler onto a
- diskette of a different color.
-
- J/
- jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com
-
- * QMPro 1.01 * memory fault: core dumped
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