Executable envelopes
Executable envelopes refers to a diverse class of files that use a standard executable format, but which were generated in a formulaic way from some original file (which may or may not have itself been executable). They usually consist of a boilerplate decoder section, plus a payload section that could potentially be extracted to a standard format.
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Executable compression
Refer to Executable compression.
Executable protection
(password protection, obfuscation, authentication, tamper-proofing, expiration, etc.)
The Security section of the SAC collection has many such programs.
Some Executable compression utilities also have features of this type.
(TODO: Populate this section.)
Self-extracting archives
Most self-extracting archive formats are covered (or would be covered) in the article for the corresponding Archiving format.
A few are listed at Archiving#Self-extracting archives, especially if they have their own article.
Self-extracting installers
Self-extracting installer formats are listed at Archiving#Program/App/Applet/Installer specialized archive formats, along with other formats.
Executable documents
(A document in some known format, combined with a viewer for that format.)
Most such formats are covered (or would be covered) in the article for the corresponding document format.
Executable text
(plain text, text with simple markup, simple e-book formats, etc.)
- Asc2Com (MorganSoft)
- AutoCom (REXXCOM) (companion to AutoDoc) [1][2]
- BIGTEXT (Kevin Solway) [3][4]
- BREEZE text to .EXE format (Kevin Solway) (see also Breeze)
- DIZ2EXE (Olan Patrick Barnes) [5]
- DOC2COM (Dan K. Nelson) [6]
- DOC2COM (Gerald DePyper)
- Electronic Text Publishing System, The (Philip P. Kapusta) [7]
- MakeScroll (Eric Gans) [8]
- READMAKE (Bruce Guthrie / Wayne Software) [9]
- SHOW (Gary M. Raymond)
- Simply Docs (SimpleWare / Robert E. Pitcher) [10]
- TEXE
- TextExe (LRC Computing)
- TEXTLIFE (Kevin Solway) [11]
- TurboTXT (by HyperWare, part of ExtraDOS Toolbox) [12]
- TXT2COM (De Trans Software)
- TXT2COM (Keith P. Graham)
- TXT2COM (Prakash.K)
- TXT2COM (Wiering Software)
- TXT2EXE (John De Palma) [13]
- TXTRUN (Sawada) [14]
- WriteMe System, The (Sitting Duck Software) [15]
- XDOC (JauMing Tseng)
- X-Filer (Philip P. Kapusta) [16]
Executable graphics
There are probably a lot of old self-displaying raster graphics formats of this type, e.g. self-running FLI, but they are rarely documented specially.
- FMAC2COM
- GIFEXE
- GRABBER
- Graphic Workshop self-displaying picture
- NETPIC
- PIXIT
- Title-Maker
- VGAPaint 386 COM Program
- VGAPaint 386 PCX Self-Extracting Picture
Executable ANSI Art
(ANSI Art and related formats)
- ANS2COM (REXXCOM) [17]
- ANSi To Exe Converter (BUFF) [18]
- P-Screen COM Screen
- sMAUG ANSI Executable
- TheDraw COM File
Other executable documents
- Font Mania (REXXCOM) (COM format)
Executable libraries
(Multiple executable files combined into one executable file.)
Compiled scripts
(Some compiled script formats don't fit this category very well, but may be listed here anyway.)
Transfer-encoded executables
(A file that remains executable despite having had a transfer encoding or the like applied. This is impossible or impractical with most executable formats, unless they are very "raw", as .COM format is.)
- c2t (Jørgen Ibsen)
- com2txt (Naoyuki Nide)
- Com2txt (Dark Stalker)
- COMT
- NETRUN
Special-purpose formats:
Links
- ANORMAL's DOSEXE collections → Executable Tools Pack - Collection of many DOS utilities
