On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:05:30PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > Okay, a coder I am not. What would be a way to unencode a windows.exe program under Linux? I did a strings against it and still had over a hundred lines that I couldn't read. > > I'm not using wine, vmware or the like currently. I'm just looking for a possible way that I can view all the encoded text. I had a virus sent to me from someone I know off another list, and am curious as to what it looks like. So, you say you want to uuencode, but it sounds like you really want to uudecode :) Either way, you distribution likely comes with the uuencode and uudecode commands. At least they're in RH 7.2. % rpm -qf `which uudecode` sharutils-4.2.1-8 Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu