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(I'm the author) it's a polyglot PDF/TeX, and you can generate the PDF by directly running PDFLaTeX on it (so you distribute the source with the viewable result)

the 2 tricks: - include the source unmodified in the PDF itself - modify the PDF so that it's parsed by PDFLaTeX itself.

The video should be available within a few months.

I wrote a write-up of it https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/browse/trunk/misc/e...

that's totally unintended: I just looked for some interesting unicode characters and chose these 2 for the video game references ;)

thanks - HexII is in very early development for now.

that's https://bitbucket.org/haypo/hachoir/wiki/Home

FYI it's now available in professional-looking version http://i.imgur.com/m6kL4Lv.png and booklet https://speakerdeck.com/ange/elf101-a-linux-executable-walkt... .

An introduction on a single page can't go deep!

"This is the whole file, however, most ELF files contain many more elements. Explanations are simplified, for conciseness."

not even German endianness ? ;)

thanks for pointing this out.

where?

thx, will fix it. any other typo ?

GP?

I have only one fez.

I might be wrong, but IMO: short lifespan (16 bits), complex format while standard DOS executables could still run...

Fezzes are cool.

Envy Code R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...