When I try to UPX it, I get an assertion failure. Apparently UPX has
trouble with FreePascal executables. I think this additionally confirms
another compiler was used.


Happy Hacking,

David E. McMackins II
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On 06/24/2018 05:33 AM, Bitácora de Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) wrote:
> Following your details, I can confirm it is UPXed. I have unpacked it,
> and increased from 8264 bytes up to 17424 bytes.
> 
> Then I examined the headers, and according to the signatures (Portions
> Copyright (c) 1983,92 Borland) it should be Turbo/Borland Pascal 7
> compiled.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
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> Fecha:        domingo, 24 de junio de 2018, 11:41:01
> Asunto:       [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS PASSWORD executable size
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> On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:09:17 -0500, David McMackins wrote:
> 
> *> I've noticed that PASSWORD is written for FreePascal, but the executable
>> in the distribution is only 8k in size. When I compile myself, it is 
>> 60k. How is it being stripped to that small size? 
> 
> *I wrote it ages ago, and I guess FreePascal gained some bloat in the mean
> time. Try compiling it with FreePascal's version from 2005. It's also
> possible I compiled the final release using Turbo Pascal, if I noticed
> back then that it could significantly decrease the binary's size... I'm
> not sure of anything.
> 
> Also, it's UPXed of course.
> 
> Mateusz
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