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Subject: Re: x86 Disassembler
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:18:12PM -0400, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Are there any tools to disassemble an x86 binary file? objdump does a nice 
> job on most files. However, I'm messing with some machine-code binary 
> files that don't have ELF headers or anything other then the machine-code 
> (ie MBR's). I'd like to disassemble them on FreeBSD, possibly to a format 
> that G(as) could reassemble. Then I don't have to use something like 
> debug.exe. 

nasm and ndisasm work splendidly for me.

If you need something more elaborate, try the trial version of DataRescue's
IDA. The console version works well under WINE.

BMS