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Here is my new tool binary to MS COFF object file converter, bin2coff

This tiny tool converts any binary file to a linkable MS COFF object file.

Usage :

http://vortex.masmcode.com/files/bin2coff10.zip

Thanks Vortex.

I'm still learning here, so try not to laugh to hard when I ask this...

Your new tool sounds cool indeed. However I'm not sure how to apply it. More precisely...

What would be a scenario where this tool would be most useful. Could you post an example or offer some detail? Thank you again.

Hi SeaFarer,

Thanks for your kind words. There are some cases where you would like to embed binary data in your executable. For example :

- Creating SFX archives : compressed data + decompressor packed in one executable. You can convert your zip or rar archive to a COFF module to be linked with the main module.

- Embedding small images \ sound files in your project without using resources.

- Embedding large data blocks and arrays. Linking them as object modules is faster than using include files containing decimal or hexadecimal bytes.

Attached demonstrates the second scenario.

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Thanks for this great example Vortex. Now I can see what you mean. This is a really nifty tool.