pure VS windows95

Pure: A static analysis file format checker\ (6 comments)

Wow, that's saying something!

The tool is called Pure [1]. It was originally written in JavaScript and open-sourced, then rewritten for Microsoft in C (running sandboxed) after it detected David Fifield's “A Better Zip Bomb” as a zero day.

I'd love to rewrite it in Zig some day to benefit from the checked arithmetic, explicit control flow and spatial safety—there are no temporal issues for this domain since it's all run-to-completion single threaded.

Got to admit I'm a little embarrassed it's still in C!

[1] https://github.com/ronomon/pure

Windows 95 can be run inside of an app.

Suuntaa tänne: GitHub - felixrieseberg/windows95: 💩🚀 Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

I use a program called Revo Uninstaller found here. There is a paid and free version, I use the free version and it works fine. When you select a program to uninstall through Revo, it will launch the program's uninstaller first, then it will find leftover files/registry data and give you the choice to delete them. Make sure you look at what it wants to delete, one time I installed a self-contained Windows 95 program, I think it was this. When I went to uninstall it with Revo, it wanted to delete the whole Windows folder...

Time for a rerun!

If the problem to solve is piping an emacs buffer to a Windows 95 text mode binary and replace the buffer with the text output, the solution could be

1. Run Windows 95 in an emulator, maybe a webassembly one.

2. Generate the mouse clicks and keyboard events to run that program, probably in a full screen DOS window. It must be in the %PATH%

3. In the same way type in the buffer in the input of the program.

4. OCR the output.

5. Replace the content of the buffer.

I think it is feasible.

Step 1 is for example https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

I wouldn't be surprised that steps 2 to 4 are already implemented in some form.

Step 5 should be trivial.

git clone https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95.git

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases downloaded the .deb place .deb in its own folder (mine is in ~/Downloads/win95) in Konsole type ar xv windows95*.deb open data.tar.xz with Ark extract lib and bin into ~/.local/ (and make sure 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"' is set in your .bash_profile) mounting the image to access files from linux (requires root password) cd /home/deck/.local/lib/windows95/resources/app/images/ fdisk -lu windows95.img this gets us the start sector (63 for me and the block size of 512) sudo mkdir /run/media/deck/win95 sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((63*512)) windows95.img /run/media/deck/win95 to remove the mount sudo umount /run/media/deck/win95