Re: Searching for an assembly guru -- DART disk utility

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From: Shirl Casner <shirlgato_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 02:02:10 -0600

Ray,

I think the original DART authors will have (had?) sources for everything for this program including the compression code. Even if the compression code is in a file resource fork segment, it does not mean the resource fork segment is pre-built library. From what I recall from an internal Apple memo from the 1980s Apple wanted the sources for everything in its programs so that Apple would have complete control over the programs in case there were problems Apple needed to fix.

I may be 100% wrong here regarding DART, but think contacting the DART authors could be beneficial. I will contact them tomorrow.

David Craig

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> On April 16, 2017, at 6:56 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray.arachelian_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
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> From what I recall mungeing doesn't have source for the actual LZH code. It's just header files.
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> And DART has it as a code resource. It looks like it comes that way - as a pre-built lib. I've tried a pass at hand disassembling this a while back, but haven't gotten deep enough.
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> Some of the code is similar to the use net code I found, much is not.
Received on 2017-04-18 10:27:10