Re: Reverse Compilers?

Patrice Badger writes: * * Hi Everyone! * * I've started working at a new firm and have come to the disturbing * discovery that I have no source code for some of my Production * .4ge's. Since I have to port this system to a new Hardware/OpSys * platform, this presents a rather large problem. * * What's a programmer to do? 8^( * * Does anyone know of a reverse compiler which will take me from c4gl * executables to 4GL? Best guess is that these were compiled with * 4.10.UC4 on a SCO Unix box. * * I *think* that in worst case I could reverse to C code, but I'm not * real confident that that would help me out much. * * I've never had to try this before. Has anyone had any experience at * this? CAN it be done? * * Help! Help! * * Patrice Badger * Caretenders, Inc. * email: badger@ntr.net If this were possible, then why even worry about encryption of source code, or sending source to customers, for that matter. We should all just send the complete source code with the executables to all the people who buy our software since there is "UN-compilers". If this is possible, I think that some sort of encryption should be able to be performed on the executables, yet still allowed to be an "exectuable". Kind of like the PKLite compression program for DOS. Thanks, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Minter Data Systems Support Senior Software Engineer A Client Technologies Company E-Mail: rob@dssmktg.com Tel: 714.771.0454 Orange County Emmaus Community Fax: 714.771.3028 De Colores - Walk# OC-13 http://www.dssny.com