Re: How to change the .exe file size ?

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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 07:14:13 -0500

"Peter Liu" <Peter Liu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any tool that can change the size of a exe file compiled by the
> Visual C++ 6.0 ?
>
> For example, the original file size of old.exe is 99 bytes and I want to
> make it 100 byte by pading 1 byte to the old.exe.
>
> I have tried the following:
> copy /b old.exe+1.bin/b new.exe /b
>
> where old.exe is the original application file of size 99 bytes.
> 1.bin is a binary file of 1 byte
> new.exe is old.exe padded with 1 extra byte at the end. its size is 100
> bytes now.
>
> After that, I can run new.exe and its behavior is the same as old.exe.
>
> However, I don't know if there is any side-effect of doing this.

    There should be no side effects of doing this.

> Besides, is there any information on the formation of a exe file ?

    Look up "portable executable common object file format" in MSDN.

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