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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Portability Poblem
Date: 5 Nov 1996 00:32:11 -0000
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In article <55kad4$k1t@newsbr.eunet.fr>,
Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) writes:
: By the way, as Jordan Hubbard wrote, strings can look in the data
: areas of the executable images, and AIX executable format (XCOFF) is
: not a standard format like COFF or ELF.
This pissed me off a bit when I first found a "strings" that does this.
The version I saw came out with something like "this file is not an exec".
I was snooping for deleted directory entries in a directory file at the
time :(
Of course the FreeBSD version works both ways :) If it's executable,
it looks in the data segment by default (unless you say -a), otherwise
it just looks through the whole file.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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