New Executable

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The NE, abbreviation for New Executable, is an executable file format that was introduced with MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking), and that was also used later in OS/2 and 16-bit Windows. While it was "new" at the time of invention, nowadays it is highly obsolete. For Windows use, it is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q65122, "Executable-File Header Format". The EXEFMT.EXE "Executable-File Header Format" (Item ID S12688) is a PKware compressed file that contains the NE file format.

A NE is also called a segmented executable.

[edit] See also

• DOS executable - also called MZ-executable
• Portable Executable