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Does anyone know if you can obtain source codes from a complied program? If
so how?

Thanx

Michael

Michael wrote:
> Does anyone know if you can obtain source codes from a complied program? If
> so how?

There's such a thing as a disassembler. It attempts to convert binary
executables into assembler code. Of course if you cant read / write
assembler, its not worth the trouble.

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:22:23 GMT, "Michael"
<> wrote:

|>Does anyone know if you can obtain source codes from a complied program? If
|>so how?
|>

All Open source or General Public License'd products have it as part
of the archive.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:26:11 -0700, Pennywise <>
wrote:

|>On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:22:23 GMT, "Michael"
|><> wrote:
|>
|>|>Does anyone know if you can obtain source codes from a complied program? If
|>|>so how?
|>|>
|>
|>All Open source or General Public License'd products have it as part
|>of the archive.
|>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html


Me thinks I misread your post.

If Reverse Engineering is your quest here's a good start:
http://tinyurl.com/46uyr

Also check out a program called softice.

If the source code is made available, yes. If not, no.
Note: decompiled code is NOT source code.


On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:22:23 GMT, in
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Michael scrawled:

>Does anyone know if you can obtain source codes from a complied
>program? If so how?
>
>Thanx
>
>Michael
>

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