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- From: f005@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Program to convert .EXE to a "C" sourc
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.022302.35247@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:23:02 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1993Jan19.202153.3247@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>, davidk@welch.jhu.edu
- (David Kitaguchi) writes:
- >In article DEn@dscomsa.desy.de, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writ
- es:
- >:PIn article <1j1lcnINNkfb@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- >:P
- >:P|>In article <1993Jan12.101849.4983@ppgfr.uucp> schwartz@ppgfr.uucp writes:
- >:P|>>: Have you seen that tool that compiles all this output into the new versi
- on
- >:P|>>: of the package?...
- >:P|>>Yes, I've got such a program.
- >:P|>>Hm, I should say I had had it. When I tried to post it here, unfortunatly
- >:P|>>a virus destroyed it. - I have a backup, but I need a little time to find
- >:P|>>it, so please watch this newsgroup for the next time.
- >:P|>>Note:
- >:P|>>My version is not able to do any documentations. (Maybe a later version.)
- >:P|>
- >:P|>I think I ran across this same program somewhere on the net. However, I wa
- s
- >:P|>able to port it and test it. I even ran its own .EXE through the program a
- nd
- >:P|>got an upgrade that could do documentation.
- >:P|>
- >:P|>However, the same virus was apparently at work and found its was into the
- >:P|>software itself...
- >:P
- >:POnly thing funny here is that someone thinks that decompilers >don't< exist.
- >:PThey do, I have used them and quite fun they are to.
- >:P
- >:POnly I doubt that anyone would make one *free*, recon on about five or so tim
- es
- >:Pthe cost of a top quality compiler (ie $10000 range).
- >:P
- >:PThe Russians have a couple for sale that they used for decompiling O/Ss etc.
- >
- >Hey there I found a PD de-compiler which does a great job converting into C. T
- here is one problem though, it puts the decompiles into either .cgm or .wmf form
- at.
- >
- >On the other hand (ignore this part, it isn't funny) there are a few dos based
- de-compilers out there running in the $1000 range for people who are good enough
- t to fill in the gaps left behind.
- >
- Rec.Humor is for jokes and humor and the like. There is absolutely nothing
- funny about this posting. Go post somewhere else and leave this newsgroup for
- real people that things better to do than talk about compilers.
-
- SKUNK
-