Re: Need to View the contents of an EXE file

adirajuv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I wrote a program in C long time ago and I lost my code and all the
> intermediate files. All I have is the "exe" file that was generated
> when I executed it. Can the code be retrieved from this exe file?
>
> If not, is there a way I can atleast view the contents of the exe
> file?

You can disassemble it to machine (assembly) code. You can never
recover the original source code. If the exe file includes
debugging info you can regain some of the identifiers used.

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