Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:32:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <savian001@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Alan Churchill <savian001@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: A program to get the source code of compiled macro.
Comments: To: "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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Ron,

Minor point but a decent parser can reformat it. My parser can easily handle
scrambling and formatting, for example.

I will rest on what I said: it is illegal to reverse engineer code.

IMO, I doubt if you would ever have people in the SAS community who really
need to obfuscate code and a determined person can get to it anyway.

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian
www.savian.net


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Fehd,
Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:42 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: A program to get the source code of compiled macro.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu
[mailto:owner-sas-
l@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Oleg Solovyev Sent: Monday, November
10, 2008
7:03 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: A program to get the
source code
of compiled macro. Congratulatons Kenneth. I am sure that was not an
easy task.
Congratulatons Kenneth. I am sure that was not an easy task. I am
thinking of
writing another macro that: - removes comments, - removes code spacing,
-
renames variables into something like this - _x2k8w1n2mj, - adds dummy,
useless
macros inside original one, - etc. Hope some people will be willing to
buy it to
protect their code from hacking. http://osolovyev.com

to make your code truly unreadable
remember to remove all blank lines
and reformat your code as a paragraph
-- UltraEdit command <Ctrl> T --

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov