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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.)   
      
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   Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)   
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