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>>>In the old DOS days we used to append stuff to the .exe using low level file functions. The trick is to find the end of file marker, remove it, insert a binary value and a new end of file marker. Mostly this was used to insert user IDs on setup. It was risky in DOS if you were not very careful.
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>>>I have never tried this with a Windows .exe, so I have absolutely no idea if it would cause problems.
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>>Most of your virus checkers would blow the whistle on this kind of activity...
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>Hi Fred,
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>The ones that use a checksum certainly would. Actually, I use a checksum myself these days to make certain something has not gotten appended to one of my files or tables. The things we have to do to protect ourselves from idiots!
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Or ourselves!

>Happy holiday,

Happy Holidays, also!