New Executable
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
New Executable (NE) is an file format used by some versions of OS/2, MS-DOS and most commonly by 16-bit Microsoft Windows; it is used for executables, dynamically-linked libraries, drivers and as a container for resources. The NE format is an extension of MZ; it was succeeded by Portable Executable on Windows and Linear Executable on OS/2.
NE is used as a container format for FNT fonts (in files carrying the extension .fon
) and for icon libraries (extension .icl
).
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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