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|    Dean Earley to qwert    |
|    Re: Visual Basic reversed engineering    |
|    13 Mar 06 11:22:26    |
      From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk              qwert wrote:       > Hello,       >       > I have an application (.exe) build in Visual Basic 6. The code (and       > programmer) are gone. The program doesn't work because it looks for a ms       > access file (.mdb) in an unknown directory. I need to figure out which       > directory this is. Is there anyway to do this? The direcory is probably       > hard-coded in the .exe, so could it be still in there as a string? Open the       > .exe with some tool and look for strings? Or is there a way to step through       > a running vb application?              I'd use FileMon from SysInternals to see what files its trying to access.              (Follow up to alt.comp.lang.visualbasic failed as my ISP doesn't have it.)              --       Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)       i-Catcher Development Team              iCode Systems              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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