New Executable

File Format
Name	New Executable
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Executables New Executable
Extension(s)	.exe, .dll, others

NE (New Executable) is an executable file format used by 16-bit Microsoft Windows, and by some versions of OS/2 and MS-DOS. It is an extension/hybrid of MS-DOS EXE (see also EXE).

Despite the name, not all NE files are executable. Examples of non-executable NE formats are FON and Icon library.

NE was succeeded by PE (on Windows) and Linear Executable (on OS/2).

Identification

An NE file begins with the ASCII signature "MZ". At offset 60 is a 4-byte integer pointing to an "extended" header that begins with "NE". For more information, see MS-DOS EXE.

Sample files

• Lots of examples at cd.textfiles.com, such as
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/49games/49GAMES/ → .../*.EXE
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/aztechmb/
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/sbup/
  • http://cd.textfiles.com/waycool/GAMES/

See also

• Dynamic-link library (Windows)

Links

• Wikipedia article
• The NE EXE File Format
• NE, from the OSDev Wiki
• Executable-File Header Format (3.1)
• Executable-File Header Format (3.00)