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Decompile / disassemble .exe?
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ZeroKoolNess1
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Oct 11, 2003, 07:17 PM
 
I'm not sure if this is possible.

I wrote a program a long time ago in C and compiled it.

It is a MS-DOS terminal program written in all C and I want to know if i can decompile/disassemble it and get the source/code out of it?

It is possible? If so how?

I lost my source coding a long time ago, however the program would be nice to have on my mac and i would like to move it into project builder and re-compile it for my mac.
That's just my opinion. What do I know, I'm just a college student.
     
calumr
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Oct 12, 2003, 06:50 AM
 
You can't get the source code out of it. It's gone forever.

You could get the x86 assembly out of it, but then you'd have to convert that to PPC assembly, which will probably be more difficult than just rewriting the program from scratch.
     
ZeroKoolNess1  (op)
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Oct 12, 2003, 01:43 PM
 
Thanks anyway.

I guess I will just rewrite it.
That's just my opinion. What do I know, I'm just a college student.
     
   
 
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