> Actually, assemblers have their own way of producing
> executables, too.
> There is a share-ware assembler (I think it is called
> A86) that even
> says that it creates opcodes different from other
> assemblers. This
> way, the author can sue unregistered owners for not
> registering.
Any court that accepts THAT as evidence needs a 1 exavolt discharge in the right place..
What if the programmer created the executable in DEBUG, hand-changed some of the bytes in the executable after linking or <gulp> did it in machine language?