From: Neil Goldberg <ngoldber AT mitre DOT org>
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Subject: Re: decompilation - of course!
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:00:04 +0100
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Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> 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....

Note to everyone, if you don't want people to waste their time using 
WINFILE on your executables when the source code is available (GPL,
duh!), always run strip on your .exes so the symbol tables that let 
decompilers/debuggers do their thing are removed. This also has the
benificiary side effect of more than halfing your executable sizes. :)

moogla