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.html