Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modifying .exe files
Keywords: configuration
Message-ID: <1874@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 18:56:00 GMT
References: <1989Dec1.215634.666@kadsma.uucp> <32336@auc.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
Lines: 12
Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

You have the right idea on how to modify the contents of an exe, but you
may want to give up a little performance for simplicity and ease of
change by going to an external configuration file.

Commercial programs do both things, pick a paradigm which pleases you
and go for it. Remember that things like exepack and axe modify the file
while leaving it executable, and that may move your target in the image.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon