From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: Re: unmerge
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:52:22 +0100 (MET)

> 
> On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Simon Chamlian tlf 340-1590 wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to "unmerge" an executable file once it has been
> > merged?
> 
> I'm not sure I know what you mean.  "merge.exe" is the complement of 
> "split.exe", which (as I understand it) splits up a large file so you can 
> put it on floppies or whayever; merge splices the pieces together.
> If by "merge" you mean "link", then I will let the gurus answer you, but 
> you are basically talking about disassembly.  What exactly do you want to do?
> 
> Then again, maybe I just don't understand the question...
> 
> Bill Davidson
> bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com

Yes Bill, I *think* you did misunderstand it.
If I'm not totally mistaken, Simon was asking about merged executables,
known elsewhere as 'coff2exe'd ones. They are generated by commands
like
	coff2exe foo
	copy /b c:/somewhere/go32.exe+foo foo.exe
(Note: the second version is considered bad style now, use the
I-always-forget-which option to coff2exe instead)

Now to answer the original question: yes, it is possible, and the
command is (who could have imagined this? :-)
	exe2coff foo.exe

Hans-Bernhard