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Topic created on: March 7, 2007 12:37 CST by minotaur .

I am trying to figure out what it is that adds the "Rich" ASCII string to a PE Header. It is not centric to the MS VS compiler as I tested that. My dummy program did not have the "Rich" ASCII string in it. Though other PE programs that I have seen did indeed have that string in it. Any ideas on what compiler it is that adds this "Rich" ASCII string and why?


thanks

  aeppert     March 7, 2007 15:26.06 CST
Recompile your program for Unicode?

Just a thought as I have not looked into this myself.

  ZaiRoN     March 7, 2007 15:54.47 CST
Hope it will help you:
http://woodmann.cjb.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5925&highlight=rich

  minotaur     March 7, 2007 18:41.23 CST
Hi ZaiRoN,

Many thanks for the link. After reading it though it appears that the MS linker should append the "Rich" string for all PE formats. This though is not the case as I tried compiling a simple "hello world" using C on Windows XP Pro using MS Visual Studio. Once done there were no Rich strings in it. I find this very odd as I have definitively seen this string in other PE files, but am unable to reproduce it. This is not the end of the world of course, but merely an annoying curiosity that I cannot account for.

Cheers,

Don

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