Yesterday I posted a script in the F-Prot support forum. Many people think that .cmd files (such as DDKBUILD.CMD) are no more than renamed batch files. The trick employed in the posted script would not be possible using normal batch scripts. Only the advanced functionality of the NT command interpreter allows this script to perform its work. The problem was to extract the last part of a file/directory path, i.e. everything after the last backslash. Here is how it works.
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Archive for February 22nd, 2007
Finally IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 have been released. I wrote about IDA during the beta-phase and I promise to write some more stuff (probably) the next weekend.
Virtual PC 2007, just like its predecessor Virtual PC 2004, is freely downloadable and comes free of charge. Although it is inferior to VMWare in several aspects, it seems there is one point where Virtual PC 2007 is better than VMWare … the support of VMX on 32bit hosts. However, I’ll have to verify that and will turn back to you with more information about it once I have it.
// Oliver