The NE, abbreviation for New Executable, is an executablefile format that was introduced with MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking)[citation needed], 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.
