Re: Patching distributed EXE's
On 24 Jan 2001, at 13:25, Chris Bensler wrote:
> 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
Just send them a new exe, it's safer, and will likely be smaller. MS sent
out one patch that was bigger than the whole OS was. And it didn't work
right. Split out the pics from the exe, and make it modular, if you want, to
reduce the size of the exe, pics in one dir and exe's in another dir, then
just replace everything in one directory on the hd.
Kat
>
> 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
>
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