Portable Executable

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• COFF

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• BAS

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• A.out

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• EXE

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• Executable and Linkable Format

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• New Executable

  The NE, abbreviation for New Executable, is a 16-bit executable file format that was introduced in Windows 3.x , and was also used at a later time in OS/2 and 16-bit Windows. While it was "new" at the time of invention, it is now rare and obsolete, though its usage can still be found by a few...

• XCOFF

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• DOS executable

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