Re: Editing .exe and .com files -Reply

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

>One trick I've used.... you can use Windows Write to look at/examine
>EXE files. Just open the file, specify NO conversion to Wrndows Write
>format, and there you go. I've used it to snoop around the XyWrite EXE
>files on days when I don't have much of a life :) In the past, I've
>discovered some undocumented function calls and command line
>commands this way.

A really handy little utility for doing this (or looking at any
file, directory, etc, and manipulating files and directories) is
the public domain DM.COM -- also found under the name DIRMAGIC. You can read any
file, including .exe or .com, it's simple and small and put out
by PC-MAG a few years ago. It's public domain, I could upload it
or encode it if anyone wanted it. You can't edit them with it,
but I've never had much luck using anything to do that without
using something like a SoftIce or other cracking tool --- and
even then I usually screw it up.

-- Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx hseaver@xxxxxxxx
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