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i was wondering if it is possible to attach a pack file to the end of a exe (pb of course) like a self extracting exe like thing with out it interfering with exe

see i was pondering a way to quickly extract things from a execute with out people haveing some extractor or pb to do so i though up a statci exe that would copy the ending chunk of data from the exe which were some program attched the pack to, into a sepreat file and then extract the files from it

but i worryed that it will be executed like normal machien code resulting in some werid error(s)
so is there a way to seperate the 2 files with out doing so

Dreglor,

Could you attach it to the end of the program using "IncludeBinary" and have your program extract it to a separate file?

Look at my message in this thread to see a small code sample:
viewtopic.php?t=9880

Eric

yes, but i want it so i don't need the complier to attach things like how winzip attaches the zip to a self extractor

There should be no problem appending data to the end of an exe file, this is true for WinOS only, for Linux i don't know...

hmm i guess this is were experamenting comes in

If the data is after the 'exit process' part of the code in your problem, it'll never get reached, so it shouldn't cause any problems (even on non-windows systems, although I don't know for sure)

now if i think about it...
what about reading it self? i thinking it will have troubles becasue it already opened