Cheat Engine

[SPW]Jsin · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: How come .exes are so....weird?

Sorry, I couldn't think of what I should put for the title.

OK, so this is the scenario:
I have yu.exe
I rename it to yu.txt
I copy the text, and place it into we.txt
I rename we.txt to we.exe
It doesn't run.
Why?

iTz SWAT · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:

Why don't u Right Click yu.exe > Copy ....
Paste it, then rename it to we.exe

Why do you want to convert it to .txt
I don't think you can simply view a program's source code by opening it as a text...

FullyAwesome · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject:

because you can't edit an exe with a text editor... iono, why would you think it would work? the funny symbols and shit comes up because you basically can't read it, and copying that stuff into a text file wouldn't make a working exe.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Go open it with a disassembler, it will prove far more useful

Karakawe · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject:

He's not trying to disassemble or look at the program's source, he just wants to know why the renaming thing doesn't work.
The answer is because when you copy/paste something into a .txt file, it's not just that data, when you save it as the text file, it undergoes the process being formatted as a text file. Little confusing, but basically saving the contents of a text file that used to be a program to a new text file adds the .txt mark (whatever that may be) to it. When you opened the program, it didn't have that, but still opened it.

Wow, I'm going around in circles. Do you understand a little of that?