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Re: Patching distributed EXE's

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at MAILOPS.COM> Jan 24, 2001
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hi,

   I know I can modify the binary, but I don't like that idea. Not that I
have any particular need for it now, but in the future, if I want to
distribute an exe, and by chance it contains an error. I would like to be
able to fix it without the user having to download the entire file again,
or something of similar size. I'm wondering if there's a way to re-include
a source file that contains the bug fix without having to recompile the
exe. Or will the patch just end up being too big? Would I have to include
the compiler to do so?
Do I make sense? LOL

Chris

Kat wrote:

>On 24 Jan 2001, at 12:18, chris bensler wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   Just curious, is it possible to patch an EXE file created with EU?
>
>Depends on what you mean by "patch". Since everything is a file of bytes,
>you can always replace bytes, but the code may or maynot do what you
>expect afterwards. Just look at microsoft, they haveto send out patches
>*all* the time.
>
>Kat