From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how to compress sea.exe by "upx --best"?
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 00:43:40 -0500
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^_^ <StephenH DOT bbs AT bbs DOT TKU DOT edu DOT tw> wrote in message
news:FIQztCQ8o4AK079yn AT bbs DOT TKU DOT edu DOT tw...
> I tried to compress sea.exe (1.3C for dos) with "upx --best",
>  (the size reduced is dramatic, 968369 to 315602! 600k of diskspace
saved!)
>  but after compression, sea says "failed CRC-check" and refuses to run.
>  I have some successful crack experiences by using SICE, TDX/TD5 etc.. but
>  don't know how to deal with executables compiled by WATCOM.
>  is anyone knows how to *patch* SEA so that it will ignore CRC checking?
>  or could anyone please tell me where to *find* the WATCOM debugger?

Watcom? This is a little off-topic; adding c.o.m.p crosspost.

What is SEA? I believe it's some self-extracting archive. Can
you get the source code and tweak it to work under DJGPP?