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goBigtime · 01-22-2004, 06:07 AM

I want to get some data out of an application... I could do it by hand but it would take forever.

Is there a way to get information on an .exe file to find out what it was written in?

or on .dat files to find out what format they are in?

dotwind · 01-22-2004, 06:22 AM

For getting data out of exe files you can disassemble it.. and then follow the assembly code needless to say it's a pain to ready assembly code.

as for the .dat files it can be in any format normaly you can't guess what's the formating and specially if it's just a dump of bytes. finding a patern in the file is the only way. good luck with that

ThePornPusher · 01-22-2004, 06:27 AM

Is the data stored in the program itself, or does the program load the files from a data file?

goBigtime · 01-22-2004, 06:28 AM

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Originally posted by ThePornPusher
Is the data stored in the program itself, or does the program load the files from a data file?

The data is loaded from file...

but fwiw, I think it may load it all into memory.

goBigtime · 01-22-2004, 06:40 AM

So is there some way I could take a 'snapshot' of the memory space an application is using and save it to a file?

I guess it wouldn't be plain text in memory though... or would it?

Hum.

ytcracker · 01-22-2004, 08:54 AM

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Originally posted by goBigtime
So is there some way I could take a 'snapshot' of the memory space an application is using and save it to a file?

I guess it wouldn't be plain text in memory though... or would it?

Hum.

you can use softice or another debugger to view the application memory space. in some cases, things are in plain text.

you might just want to run a hex editor instead of a disassembler if you're just scanning for a certain string within the file.

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01-22-2004, 06:40 AM	#5
goBigtime Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,761	So is there some way I could take a 'snapshot' of the memory space an application is using and save it to a file? I guess it wouldn't be plain text in memory though... or would it? Hum.