exe. decompilers

Check http://www.cs.uq.edu.au/groups/csm/dcc.html - even though I fear that working with that might be pretty tedious...

what exe ? Was it written in C, Pascal, VC, VBasic ? Is it an installer made with InstallShield or whatever ?

Aye,
the code was written in C and the installer is InstallShied.
does this help?

I tried the link but it didn't work though...
jamie

Sorry, the link has moved: http://www.csee.uq.edu.au/~csmweb/dcc.html

hey man,
I gave the URL a whirl but the source and instructions are a bit unwieldy...i.e. I couldn't get it to work.
any other sites? :)

at the bottom of the link jkr

Note
Dcc has a fundamental design flaw that limits it to about 30k of input binary program, i.e. it currently handles toy programs only!

thanks but is there anything else i can use?

thanks but is there anything else i can use?

If you have executables, all you will be able to get out of them is basically sloppy assembly language.  Languages provide a way for us to more easily understand what we are telling the computer to do... once they are compiled into executables there is nothing remaining of the language.  It's just machine instructions... just because we told the compiler what instructions to use using C++ doesn't mean there's any C++ in the code that the compiler made.

Thanks,
I think I'll just hide ma head in shame and tell the big man there aint nothing I can do...
catch you later & thanks for the comments,
jamie