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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:08:08 +0100
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From: Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr>
Subject: Re: decompilation - of course!
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Hello,

yes, thats right and I have seen it. 
You get the source back but do not ask how

I have decompiled the WINFILE.EXE from WfW 3.11
and I have gotte a c-source file of more then 6 MByte.

Good luck, if you like to change anything there.

I have tried to make a german version (from the new WINFILE.EXE)
I have read the first 500 lines and deleted them.

You must be crazy to use a file like this.

Oh yes, the decompilation takes much time.
On my AMD K5-133 it was around 2 days....

Webmistress Michelle


At 13:32 08.08.1999 -0400, you wrote
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MK>Radical NetSurfer wrote:
MK>> 
MK>> Its not impossible,
MK>> Its not as difficult as some would have you believe.
MK>
MK>  I beg to differ.  It's extremely easy to disassemble something, but
MK>you can (probably) never produce the original source code.  For one,
MK>you lose all variable names.  Also, most compilers will unroll some of
MK>your loops and add new variables and take some away.  It's not easy
MK>to build structures back once they have been optimized by the compiler.
MK>
MK>  Chris
MK>
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