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- From: a10@server.uwindsor.ca (FUERST.D )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Decompilers and as
- Message-ID: <2522@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:16:18 GMT
- References: <C1F4Go.IB1@news.rich.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- In article <C1F4Go.IB1@news.rich.bnr.ca> faurote@crchh484.BNR.CA (Joe Faurote) writes:
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- >What I want to do, while I'm waiting for a DOS emulator, is to take a
- >DOS executable file (.exe or .com), put it into assembly (I have a
- >program that does this flawlessly - cracker.exe!!!), de-compile it
- >into C source code, and port it over to Coherent. It seems to me that
- >I had seen programs that took executables and decompiled them into
- >C source automagically and inefficiently, but I haven't seen any
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- Maybe I'm slow (my wife thinks so), but wouldn't it just be faster to rewrite
- the software to work under Coh in the first place? Better still, create the
- code under Coh, and port it to DOS.
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- I suspect that using your approach to port anything nontrivial (e.g., Wordperf.,
- Lotus, Wing Commander) would take from now until sometime around the end of
- the universe.
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