[DUG] Program Exe information

[Jeremy North]

The is an application with source code in the CodeCentral database
that does this for Delphi and C++ applications.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:37 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> PEExplorer may be overkill as well as expensive for mere curiosity.
>
> there are basic utilities (ported from Unix/Linux such as strings (shows
> strings in a binary file) and file
>
> (An excellent port of file is at
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm)
>
> Background - unix/linux do not and never have used file extensions
> todetermine what kind of file they are - executable files can be identified
> by magic numbers - ie examining the data inside the file headers - including
> shell scripts etc).  There are excellent utilities in Unix for diagnosing
> what kind of file anything is.
>
> for instance here is the info from the command file.exe on Skype.exe
>
> file \Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe
> \Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe; PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI)
> Intel
>  80386 32-bit
>
> this program can usually tell for instance the difference between text
> files, HTML, batch files, source files - it often hints what language it
> thinks a source file is.  Another example:
>
> JBxxxx.dproj;     XML document text
>
> I was hoping for a similar open source tool that might give info on
> compiler/linker signatures, not the full disassembly tools.
>
>
>
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Coulter" <jscoulter at gmail.com>
> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Program Exe information
>
>
>>I generally use PEExporer , but you only really generally pick up on things
>
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