amnot

Greetz.
I am just a noob in the grand scheme of things.

Right now I am messing with automating more things for myself.

The command line parameters that most programs use are quite helpful.

Unfortunately many programs do not reference what their parameters are.

The usual app /? does not work sometimes.

I have been able to root around in .dll's and .exe's, etc to find some.

My question. Is there a utility or something that can dig them up. Or, a util that I could use to look at certain types of files that do contain these little gems?

I have tried a few .dll viewers and hex editors. No success mostly. Occassionaly I find one hidden in an .ini or .cfg, or even in some script that it uses.

Any help here?

Thanks

kurifu

Command line switches are implemented at the source level for each program, and as such there is no standard way to do it, no standard way to list what options are available for each application, it is all up to the developer to decide if he even wants to document any of it.

You may be able to dis-assemble application code and determine what options are available by tracing the code, but this can be tricky, and if you are not good you may not uncover all or any command line options at all.

There is no application I know of that will tell you what options are available either. Typically using /? or /h or -h or --help or /v, -v, or --version will sometimes give you a few more details... not always.. again depends on what the developers decided to put into it.

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amnot

Wow. Very nice answer kurifu.

Sounds like I am out of luck.

However, since I love to learn new things, do you have any suggestions on some programs that dis-assemble into what we humans call "english"?

I may not find anything, but it would be fun to look at the guts.

Thanks for the reply.

BTW, in Windows, you can sometimes use a reg edit to change the state of something. A good example is OE. One of the security features is not allowing the viewing/opening of attachements that might be unsafe. I can change the reg entry, and the next time I start OE it has changed it, but it does not change it on the fly, even with a refresh. I can kill the explorer shell and then restart it to accomplish this, but it would be quicker to just use the toolbox and apply at that point. Any thoghts on how to get these kind of changes to apply instantly?

Thanks again.

Tama

>do you have any suggestions on some programs that dis-assemble into what we humans call "english"?
Compilation is a very lossy process, so you can't expect much out of disassembly.