From: s0052mol AT ural2 DOT vsz DOT bme DOT hu (Molnar Laszlo)
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Subject: Re: Appending data to executables?
Date: 29 Sep 1997 15:24:39 GMT
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Hargreaves, Shawn (shawnh AT probe DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: 
: A simple question for anyone who knows about this: are there any gotchas   
: that I should be aware of when appending binary data onto the end of a   
: djgpp executable? It seems to work quite happily, but is there any danger   
: of this upsetting the stub in some way? What about if the file is   
: compressed with DJP? (as long the data is appended after the compression   
: is done, it seems to work ok, but I'm very suspicious of this :-)

According to my sources, there should be no problem. DJP always uses the
information of the coff header. But decompressing is not recommended ;-)

Laszlo