Attaching 2 EXEs together ???

[Purifier]

Hello.

Let's say, I got two different programs doing 2 different tasks, for e.g:

Program A.EXE shows a message box "A" and exits.
Program B.EXE shows a message box "B" and exits.

I want to attach these two programs into a new C.EXE file which shows a message box "A" and then shows a message box "B".

Is there a way to attach these two files together? or in other words, I need to bypass the command in A.EXE telling the program to exit.

Any Idea?

[dcongram]

How about a batch file ?

@echo off
cls
a.exe
b.exe

Write it in Notepad so there are no header codes or use Command prompt 'copy con' command

[Purifier]

Nice try, but I need it in an EXE file, not BAT

Any other ideas?

[el-half]

idea: just put program a and b code in one program and recompile --> result program c
Or do you want to attach a compiled program to another?

[Purifier]

I wanna attach two already-compiled EXEs together.

(And I dont wanna use a decompiler, for attaching the code together)

Any Ideas?

[SirDice]

You probably need to create some sort of wrapper program. This wrapper program contains both exes and when executed extracts them and runs them in order. I'm not sure but you might be able to do this with UPX.

[Purifier]

The link you posted is broken for some reason...

Anything else?

P.S: all I'm trying to do is to make a passworder program.

you know, I wanna add some EXE before the real EXE is about to run, and then, if correct password was given, go through the file itself and run it.

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by Purifier
The link you posted is broken for some reason...

Just checked it, URL seems fine. But here it is again: http://upx.sourceforge.net/

[WhiteAdmin]

Hm, It seems, that UPX is a packer for Executables, but not the solution for combining two executables.
From further Windows-Versions, I know SILKROPE to combine two executables, normally taken to set BO to an additionally Executable.
But you will get Problems with it when taking 32Bit-Windows like W2K. I could try to get a link to that. But if someone has a fully functional 32-Bit-Version...

Greetings

WA

[Purifier]

I don't understand how this UPX can help me.
I am not looking for a compression method...

Please explaing further.

Thanks.