May 15, 2003

EXE

/eks´ee/ or /eek´see/ or /E·X·E/ n.

An executable binary file. Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension .EXE to mark such files. This usage is also occasionally found among Unix programmers even though Unix executables don't have any required suffix.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:49 AM

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