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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Disassembler
Message-ID: <25f5b12d.6405@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 90 01:11:09 GMT
References: <44@demott.COM> <218@metapyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <218@metapyr.UUCP> david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) writes:
>SOURCER from V Communications (800) 662-8266 is the best disassembler I have
>ever used.  With the BIOS preprocessor it has lots of info on the rom bios,
>including names of bios data areas.  It will comment code as it disassembles
>and does a good job labeling DOS and BIOS interrupt calls.

I am interested in knowing how Sourcer compares with Dis*Doc from RJ Swantek.
I have not worked with either one, and am not likely to really want to pay
the prices... but may break down and buy one next time I need it.
I have used ASMGEN, which is more or less successful at simple disassembly
tasks, but a real pain to use.  CodeView is generally more useful for just
hacking on an executable.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.