Don't output the file

Question

This rar file, when decompressed, gives a 65024-byte exe file. Requiring you to output the contents of that file would be absolutely no fun.

But you aren't required to do that. Actually, you're to do something opposite: Output a binary of the same length (65024 bytes), such that no byte equals the byte at same position in the source exe file.

This is code-golf, shortest code wins.

Answer 1

BQN, 81 bytes^SBCS

•Out 65024↑1042/"#?ZY>Rg*778c0?74h3g)G?mm5963!1[!1OC+VUb)7]#Z-%&N/D^sUrJaVwc}%! "

Try it online! This is written for CBQN, I removed the •Out to run it online.

If you split the binary into chunks of 1042, in each chunk at least one printable different from " is missing. Search program:

pa ← @-˜'"'⊸≠⊸/' '+↕95
b ← @-˜•FBytes "fr08v101.exe"
m ← ⊑⌽1000+/{⊑∧´¬∧˝pa∊⌜<˘↑‿𝕩⥊b}¨ 1000+↕1000
•Show m
•Show @+⊑⟜pa¨ ⊑∘/˘⍉¬pa∊⌜<˘↑‿m⥊b

Answer 2

Pyth, 55 51 bytes

<3s*L1586"iýy±å7˱â7a£Õ§³mh79B!OÈ­wc7wÝ%'÷î3awo÷c­#

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         "iýy±å7˱â7a£Õ§³mh79B!OÈ­wc7wÝ%'÷î3awo÷c­#    41-character string literal
   *L1586                                            repeat each character 1586 times
  s                                                  concatenate
<3                                                   remove the last 3 characters
                                                     output with a trailing newline

(Use the PYTHONIOENCODING=latin1 environment variable for correct binary output.)

Answer 3

Charcoal, 339 bytes

ＵＴＩ⪪”}⊞➙×Ｔμ[j…｜U◨{Ｕ⁸→º4Ｄ›⮌⪫ιaＹh⎇E"6ºρ⌊mＭＯk…÷›ＧF⭆B↨⬤U↙⊕✳…Ｈd¶5‖Ｏ$¬÷Ｇ≕6ＴχSυ⟧⌈◨~a3j'▷↘3⊖À⁷0r]e⎇⁻≔s＆g>▶r↔⊗⁰ηχκη↔S1hLΦ⍘⦄⪪⊕«⪪⊙M»nＰＯgbＯ\XＫÀ›'◨‽⬤κ➙›\p；▶⸿⁴P÷χ>Ie…Ｅσ/Ｎ⟲Ｂ÷«～υ⟧χ9✂‽G⁶⦄⁷τＨ¿Þ₂⊘ΦＷ4rO＆v×σIB⍘↔_﹪ηA⸿/?⊙/Ｊ¡lβ“K▷¬✂6τＢ﹪G▶﹪⁺%zÀτ(&7\`g⁷Ｃ↙¤⦄ïＧ↖0⪫ςj]nＱ#Ｗ¶ＪeM)⬤χ9c←@⁷S5w⌊#Ｕ；Ｎ⌕·NＳＮ1?Σ@s↖$Ｔ(⁵xd«Fαh▶º⌊0l⮌d⮌oＨ"=d=▷À⁰j¤q⊙⦃Oε↥∧ψ�¬&≧↷cy/⊞⁴GE»¦≔✳κ¦'⁶↘S⎚ü]₂Ｑ”¶

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation: Charcoal is very good at printing lots of - signs. The compressed strings represents all the runs of non---signs in the file. Each run of -s is separated by a newline, thus ensuring that no character of the output matches a character in the file.

ＵＴ

Turn off Charcoal's default rectangular output, since we don't want space padding.

Ｉ⪪...¶

Split the compressed string 1041\n97...104\n2031 on newlines (they are the golfiest separators), and cast the numbers to integer, which causes Charcoal to output them as that number of - signs.

A "port" of @ovs's answer is only 90 bytes:

⭆“"jＶXＷ⬤tＯ#^S0➙↷⊟Li§Ｋ″1·β℅±d74%;{ESＭ»ΠⅈρξDςΦcＳEenÞ⁻.⁷¡ê；q¬⟧l﹪Π0№Σ″≔Ｘ⁼·⁶d´Z»～⪪Ｖ⎚+⪪ÀkＯ”×ι⁵¹²

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation: Simply repeats each character in the compressed string 512 times (I used this instead of @ovs' 1042 because it's a factor of 65024 and larger factors end up covering all of printable ASCII). Conveniently all the characters needed are in Charcoal's "symbols" area which allows the string to be compressed from 127 to 84 bytes. (It's not possible to do this with all letters (either upper or lower case) or all digits.)

Answer 4

JavaScript (ES10), 131 bytes

Returns an array of bytes.

_=>[..."hx53ptn9mgv1xij4xcw506nhi1cxi7w116o3kntsesafc5xwy4w15u6bo7ulphwt"].flatMap(v=>Array(1016).fill(n-=parseInt(v,36)-17),n=187)

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How?

This encodes 64 bytes \$b_0\$ to \$b_{63}\$ that are repeated 1016 times each and do not appear in the corresponding chunk of the original file:

187,171,183,197,189,177,171,179,174,175,161,177,161,160,158,171,
155,160,145,157,174,185,179,179,178,194,199,183,182,192,177,193,
209,220,213,227,224,218,206,195,198,187,194,196,201,213,197,182,
165,178,163,179,191,178,189,195,188,198,185,181,173,173,158,146

The values were chosen in such a way that \$|b_k-b_{k-1}|<18\$ for each \$k>0\$, which allows to store the delta values in base 36.

Answer 5

JavaScript (Node.js), 74 bytes SBCS

_=>"­[-!^7q7hŒƒŽÏ³á»±™{3Ž³îg}GÅc¬ïn·×O~v#¹›½+:[¦w".repeat(1414).slice(20)

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I'm not sure if this happen for random enough file, or why you use aaaabbbbccccdddd rather than abcdabcdabcdabcd even for languages with better support for the latter solution

Answer 6

05AB1E, 260 70 69 bytes

-1 thanks to Kevin Cruijssen.

•Ý=£ë—ÛāR5Bf·½"¨ß¡˜v`₆BÌÝΩ\∞?ΓтJ&тƒFćO#'œ|Ć‹RÞ¼Á,нìçD|•Ƶ?вŽ4´δи˜Ž3ć(£

Try it online! Outputs as a list of byte values. Alternative link for text output.

Explanation

Similarly to other answers here, this answer uses equal-sized chunks (except the last chunk), each consisting of the same byte throughout the entire chunk (but different bytes throughout the entire output). To get an optimal score, maximizing the chunk size is important – or rather, minimizing the number of chunks.

To do this, I iterated through chunk sizes, starting from \$1{,}000\$ and going up. With each iteration, I checked if every byte value was present at least once in at least one chunk.

This happened at \$1{,}200\$ bytes per chunk. This meant that each chunk but the last can be up to \$1{,}199\$ bytes, with the last chunk being \$278\$ bytes. This means there are \$54\$ full chunks plus the small chunk at the end, making a total of \$55\$ chunks.

Let's verify this: \$54×1{,}199+278=65{,}024\$.

Finally, for each chunk, we find the smallest byte that doesn't exist there and repeat it for the length of that chunk, and we're done!

Answer 7

PHP (276 chars)

for($d=[-17,-532,-95,-515,-79,463,95,-392,-27,148,$i=-1,808,53,61,15,-665,-5,419,-29,211,46,399,95,569,11,-2,101,-588,11,418,-43,-70,-48,-1887,105,918,-63,-1655,-97,-317,-104,-116,-74,513,53,885,-97,605,150,593,20,-295];++$i<52;)echo str_repeat(chr(150-$d[$i]),2500-$d[++$i]);

Try it Online (using an URL shortener to store the .exe file)

If GMP is available it's 206 chars long :

for($d=str_split(($i=0).gmp_init('1FmB6eDs41MlblmT1hchbcMok3RFjcIJ7OHt8hphdLMPDPgigsPrqHXfc3QEFotYuvL9zfZ3y7ZYkD7nnoSCgAzgJhHEVnl9R6mB5cshIudtpnunsccV',62),4);$i<52;)echo str_repeat(chr($d[$i++]),$d[$i++]);

How is generated this sequence of str_repeat ?

Just by the output of strcspn.

<?php
$data = file_get_contents('raw_file');
$file_length = strlen($data);
$ptr = 0;
while ($ptr < $file_length) {
    $max_dist = $max_ord = 0;
    for ($i = 0; $i < 256; ++$i) {
        $char = chr($i);
        $dist = strcspn($data, $char, $ptr);
        if ($dist > $max_dist) {
            $max_dist = $dist;
            $max_ord = $i;
        }
    }
    $ptr += $max_dist;
    echo ".str_repeat(chr($max_ord), $max_dist)";
}