Introduction This page is intended to document the format of DOS executable fileswhich have a filename extension of .EXE. Note that otherformats (e.g. .COM) are not covered. This information is necessary for anyone who might wish to write programswhich process such files, including those who are writing bootstraps andprogram loaders. Note that this only covers the 16 bit executable files used by DOS,and not those used by other systems such as Windows and OS/2, even thoughthey also have a filename extension of .EXE.