denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (02/19/87)
Previously, I posted the following message: | I am looking for a resource decompiler. I want to take a file created with | ResEdit and decompile it so that I have a text file that I can print out. It | would also be nice if its output could be edited and then recompiled with | RMaker. I have received many responses. The ones below form a complete summary: +-------- |From: osu-eddie!gould9!joel (Joel West @ Western Software Technology) | |the answer to your problem is MPW. It has a resource decompiler |called DeRez that produces a C-like syntax, and Rez recompiles it. | |See my Feb. 1987 article in MacTutor. | | Joel West MCI Mail: 282-8879 | Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA 92083 | {cbosgd, ihnp4, pyramid, sdcsvax, ucla-cs} !gould9!joel | joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPA This one sounds great, but MPW requires a mac+ with a hard drive (for practical purposes), neither of which I have. Are Rez and DeRez available seperately from MPW, and will they run out of MPW's shell. (I don't think so.) +------ |From: osu-eddie!cbatt!clyde!masscomp!wang7!wang!ephraim | |REdit (*not* ResEdit) is able to decompile some types of resources. |The output takes some tweaking to be accepted by RMaker. |DeRez decompiles many more types of resources, but the output is |only good for input to Rez. Both Rez and DeRez are MPW tools. I had already found this one, but it is not satisfactory, since it can only decompile some of the resources, and it only prints a message saying that it can't decompile a resource, rather than decompiling it as a GNRL. +------ |From: Ben.Cranston<zben@umd5.umd.edu> (Ben Cranston ) | |I have one that came from sumex I think. It is MFS compatable so the input |files have to be in the outermost directory (i.e. thie disk) for it to see |them, but aside from that it's really useful... I have written off to Ben about this one ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wiliam C. DenBesten | ... !osu-eddie!bgsuvax!denbeste UUCP Dept of Computer Science | denbeste%research1.bgsu.edu@csnet-relay ARPA Bowling Green State University | denbeste@research1.bgsu.edu CSNET Bowling Green, OH 43403-0214 | #include <std.disclaimer.h> --------------------------------+---------------------------------------------- There is no difference between theory and practice in theory, but there is often a great deal of difference between theory and practice in practice.