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jonocchio

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all links for software are broken
« on: May 01, 2010, 09:58 AM »
all links for software pages give me a message "not found"

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2010, 10:32 AM »
I confirmed resulting 404 pages for at least a few URLs.

A specific example URL is:

  http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/RunAndHide/RunAndHide.exe

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2010, 11:28 AM »
i temporarily renamed the exes so skrommel could rebuild them without upx.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2010, 11:40 AM »
maybe the current exe files can decompressed without recompiling? upx allows decompression unless it's password-protected.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2010, 12:34 PM »
thats a very interesting idea that hadn't occured to me!

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2010, 12:41 PM »
Agreed, great idea.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2010, 07:24 PM »
I hope someone can help here.  Is it going to be possible to download this piece of software soon?  Regards,  AlanLB.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2010, 07:43 PM »
times like this you realize how many people are downloading skrommel tools every day!

alan, yes they will be back online for download by monday!

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2010, 08:56 AM »
all of the links are still broken

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2010, 10:16 AM »

I'm rushing here but maybe someone could give instructions how to download & use the AHK scripts (maybe even add it to the top of his software page)
Tom

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2010, 09:55 AM »
maybe the current exe files can decompressed without recompiling? upx allows decompression unless it's password-protected.
BTW, I tried this today on 100 or so of Skrommel's tools and didn't have luck with any of them.  Has any one else tried?  If any of you are/were successful, would you mind sharing the command line options you used?

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2010, 10:15 AM »
i just tried for one of them and it seems to work. there command is: upx -d -o<filename_out> <filename_in>

here's a screenie.
Skrommel-upx-decompress-08_05_2010-003.png

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2010, 10:32 AM »
The decompression seemed to worked for me too, but when trying to run the resulting .exe,  there was a dialog box that said something about the exe being corrupted.  I only used the -d option which overwrites the original file.  May be I'll try what you suggested.  Thanks.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2010, 10:40 AM »
Hmm, no apparent difference in results here.  Still get a similar-looking dialog: "EXE corrupted" when I try to run the resulting exe.  FWIW, the original exe does run fine.

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Re: all links for software are broken
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2010, 10:51 AM »
i'm afraid that i didn't check properly earlier. decompressed files do error out saying that the exe is corrupted. not sure why.. :o

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