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Portable Executable

The "Portable Executable" format is an executable file format[?] used in 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. Microsoft's PE format is mostly a copy of the Unix COFF[?] file format.

External links:

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/hardware/PECOFF.asp
http://caolan.wvware.com/~caolan/publink/winresdump/winresdump/doc/pefile

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