Re: Turbo Pascal decompile

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From: Robert AH Prins
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:50

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"Vector Magnetics LLC" <VecMag@VectorMagnetics.com> wrote in message news:<3b1693f3$1@news2.lightlink.com>...
> I have a problem and any input or suggestions I get would be great, here's
> the problem:
> I have a 407K program that I have determined was written in 1987 or 1988
> with a Borland Turbo Pascal complier. I need to DECOMPILE it back to some
> sort of readable code. I have tried a few reverse engineering programs...
> but they either change it to assembly code only 

Assembly code is very readable!

> or won't write the code because of the file size. Is there any program out 
> there that will help me turn this executable into readable code? 

Get IDA @ <http://www.datarescue.com/>  The current price is a mere
snip at USD 299, and it comes with FLIRT, (Fast Library Identification
and Recognition Technology), that will convert a lot of call xxxx:yyyy
calls to commented calls to library routines, making it easier to make
sense of the resulting assembler code.

> Or is there any other method that might help me? Thanks, Nick

Contact the author... (And to prevent this from happening again, use
Open Source programs in the future!)

Robert

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