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Previously, I posted the following message:
| I am looking for a resource decompiler.  I want to take a file created with 
| ResEdit and decompile it so that I have a text file that I can print out.  It
| would also be nice if its output could be edited and then recompiled with
| RMaker.

I have received many responses.  The ones below form a complete summary:

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|From: osu-eddie!gould9!joel  (Joel West @ Western Software Technology)
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|the answer to your problem is MPW.  It has a resource decompiler
|called DeRez that produces a C-like syntax, and Rez recompiles it.
|
|See my Feb. 1987 article in MacTutor.
|
|	Joel West			     MCI Mail: 282-8879
|	Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA  92083
|	{cbosgd, ihnp4, pyramid, sdcsvax, ucla-cs} !gould9!joel
|	joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPA

This one sounds great, but MPW requires a mac+ with a hard drive (for
practical purposes), neither of which I have.  Are Rez and DeRez available
seperately from MPW, and will they run out of MPW's shell. (I don't think so.)

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|From: osu-eddie!cbatt!clyde!masscomp!wang7!wang!ephraim
|
|REdit (*not* ResEdit) is able to decompile some types of resources.
|The output takes some tweaking to be accepted by RMaker.
|DeRez decompiles many more types of resources, but the output is
|only good for input to Rez.  Both Rez and DeRez are MPW tools.

I had already found this one, but it is not satisfactory, since it can only
decompile some of the resources, and it only prints a message saying that it
can't decompile a resource, rather than decompiling it as a GNRL.

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|From: Ben.Cranston<zben@umd5.umd.edu> (Ben Cranston )
|
|I have one that came from sumex I think.  It is MFS compatable so the input
|files have to be in the outermost directory (i.e. thie disk) for it to see
|them, but aside from that it's really useful...

I have written off to Ben about this one ...


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