Hi there,
everything is in the title, I'm looking for a tool which would help me understand the structure of some executables (mainly MS-DOS).
I would like to avoid writing one, even if there's arleady plenty of infos available like in https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2 … com/h/exeflat.h
Any idea?
Thanks.
I've found Stuff for LE and DOS32 exe in https://bloodycactus.com/code.html
yeah my info-le is quite old, but should describe the main parts of LE header.
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CFF Explorer is a good tool for PE files.
MZ header doesn't really contain that much information. I have a very minimal tool just to display the memory footprint to determine when something will fit in available conventional memory:
again another retro game on itch: https://90soft90.itch.io/shmup-salad
Extensive File Dumper linked on this page https://hex-rays.com/documentation/
infoexe for MZ comes with LZEXE packer by fabrice bellard.
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Thank you guys.
@pjturpeau: Out of curiousity, what do you intend to do with this information?
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Did you read it anyway? Well, you can find all sorts of stuff I made using various programming languages over here:
https://github.com/peterswinkels
Mainly for learning purpose to be able to pack data to executables after the link phase.
I would prefer doing this rather than making the executable grow in size (from an MSDOS point of view) by embedding data at compilation time.
For NE there's Borland Resource Workshop 4.5, for example.
For NE/PE, Exescope is worth a try.
Other tools of this kind are Resource Hacker, EXE Explorer, PE Explorer.
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