Hi! Kevin,

On 03 Nov 08 14:14, you wrote to me:

 >> You could try hashing the resultant Bat2Exe .Exe with
 >> PkLite?  Those .Exe files are pretty much unreadable with
 >> any viewer after they've been PkLite-ed.  Do you have a copy
 >> handy?

 KK> Say, did you know BAT2EXE compiles into *.com files?

Hotdam!  No, I didn't.  I can't recall ever trying it but any possible
attempts were more than likely further back than yesterday, and I've had a
sleep since then.  All gone now. :)

In that case, you might consider using a doo-hickey called PACO.  It's
another gem by Horst Schaeffer.  It's an archiver in the truest sense,
where *.com files can be hidden inside an archive (no compression
involved), and executed by running the archive name and using the archived
*.com file's names as 'arguments'.

The prime example is, say, an archive named Do.Com with a utility called
Espace.Com archived in it; the command-line to run the archived utility
would be: "DO ESPACE". Espace.Com doesn't exist on disk, other
than being in the archive, and is therefore not immediately readable. 
Cool, hey.

See HORST32.ZIP in the BFDS repository for PACO.

Now, a certain person hereabouts with a *nix background could equate PACO
with how the 'busybox' processor works for some -small- linux distros and
would be pretty close to the mark.  Horst is one hell of a futurist.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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