m$ do not want you decompiling their apps. They have made sure you do
not decompile their apps useing every anti-decompile trick they can.
They will not decompile.
Vic wrote:
>
> Sorry to butt in
> Is there a good reverse compiler to
> get some source code out of ms apps so I can
> make them run in Linux?
> I mean make a linux binary.
>
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > I just can't fathom that MS Office or IE are VB applications. For sure the
> > NT Services are not VB apps. ActiveX controls are C++. The common controls
> > library are C++ too (tabs, list views, rich edit views). The Visual
> > InterDev, VB, and VC IDEs are C & C++. The VB interpreter engine is
> > probably C++, C, and assembler. I can't imagine building a kernel with
> > anything other than assembly or C...
> >
> > I asked this question on a MSVC developer mailing list and all the replies
> > where that the kernel OS has always been in assembler and C and recently
> > (Win98 onwards) with a little C++.
> >
> > VB is a wrapper around the Windows C API, so I just can't believe that the
> > majority of the OS and supporting native apps are written in VB...
> >
> > http://www.johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.htm
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:14 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> >
> >
> > you guys really should do a little more research into the languages M$ has
> > used to write windows with. Since Win3.11 only the kernel has been written
> > in something other than VB. Visual BAsic (not the script). The kernel is
> > written in Assembly and M$ C++.
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