amazingly small exe(17 bytes!)

[ecube]

below is simple code that will produce a 17 byte exe named hello.exe that when run from the console will output hello!. I wouldn't expect this to work on all windows but it works on my xp pro sp1.

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.386
.model flat, stdcall
option casemap:none

include \masm32\include\windows.inc
include \masm32\include\user32.inc
include \masm32\include\kernel32.inc
include \masm32\include\masm32.inc
includelib \masm32\lib\kernel32
includelib \masm32\lib\user32
includelib \masm32\lib\masm32

.data
pName     byte 'hello.exe',0
header    byte 180,9,186,9,1,205,33,195,32
testmsg   byte 'hello!',10,36,0

.data?
SizeWritten   dd ?
hHand         dd ?

.code
start:
invoke CreateFile,addr pName,GENERIC_READ or GENERIC_WRITE,FILE_SHARE_READ or FILE_SHARE_WRITE,NULL,CREATE_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE,NULL
mov hHand,eax
.if eax!=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
invoke WriteFile,hHand,addr header,9,ADDR SizeWritten,NULL
invoke lstrlen,addr testmsg
mov ecx,eax
invoke WriteFile,hHand,addr testmsg,ecx,ADDR SizeWritten,NULL
invoke CloseHandle,hHand
.endif
invoke ExitProcess,0
end start


[u]

it's too fat  :green2! It can be made 16-byte

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header    byte 180,9,186,8,1,205,33,195
testmsg   byte 'hello!',10,36,0

main proc
local f1
mov f1,fopen("out.com","wb")
fwrite f1,offset header,16
fclose f1

ret
main endp


And it's basically not .exe, but a .com :)

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mov ah,9
mov dx,108h
int 21
ret
db "hello!$"


[sinsi]

15 bytes

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header    byte 180,9,186,8,1,205,33,195
testmsg   byte 'hello!$'

No need for a LF...

[ecube]

15 bytes

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header    byte 180,9,186,8,1,205,33,195
testmsg   byte 'hello!$'

No need for a LF...

with LF removed...

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

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i'm going to have to disagree with you there sinsi  :U

[Vortex]

 :P

The smallest COM file :

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ret

[MichaelW]

sinsi's 15-byte coding works OK. You can do without the LF, but not without the string terminator.

[Tedd]

Why not say "Hi" instead of the byte-wasting "Hello" :bdg

[u]

Tsk tsk tsk, I'm disappointed in you guys - to optimize a program, you cut down functionality and correctness of the output!  :lol     :P

[sinsi]

Tsk tsk tsk, I'm disappointed in you guys - to optimize a program, you cut down functionality and correctness of the output!  :lol     :P

Functionality and correctness? It's supposed to print "Hello!" to the console...and it does function correctly  :P

i'm going to have to disagree with you there sinsi :U

Don't forget the "$" at the end...

Anyway, it seems a bit much to write a 12K Win32 app to write a 15 byte DOS file  :lol

[daydreamer]

how boring with code the smallest Hello
I tried to make breakout that is only a single compare & neg velocity, but loops thru all possibility collisons and with help of and #1, the same compare & neg alternates between x and y
but the initalization code that draws walls and bunch of bricks bloats it

[skywalker]

If yall are bored, maybe someone could write a program that will inject current date and time in a file opened in
Qeditor. :-)

[hutch--]

Use TopGun, it already does that.

[skywalker]

Thanks.

[sinsi]

If yall are bored, maybe someone could write a program that will inject current date and time in a file opened in
Qeditor. :-)

The basics:

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  TimeDateString = current date/time string
  eax = invoke FindWindow,"qe30_class",0
  eax = invoke FindWindowEx,eax,0,"richedit",0
  invoke SendMessage,eax,EM_REPLACESEL,1,offset TimeDateString


[skywalker]

I think you are misunderstanding what I am looking for.

I have a com file that I wrote that will write date/time to a text file in DOS but can't get it to work in Qeditor.

&Time, \16bit\time2file.bat >> {b}

I hope that made sense.