From: "Damian Yerrick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: how to compress sea.exe by "upx --best"? Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 00:43:40 -0500 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Lines: 18 Message-ID: <7t6qi1$4eo$1@solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: yerricde.laptop.rose-hulman.edu X-Trace: solomon.cs.rose-hulman.edu 938929537 4568 137.112.205.146 (3 Oct 1999 05:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Oct 1999 05:45:37 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com ^_^ 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?