From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!inuxd!stevens Newsgroups: net.micro Title: IBM PC file formats Article-I.D.: inuxd.229 Posted: Mon Jan 17 08:29:15 1983 Received: Wed Jan 19 05:15:26 1983 The PC-DOS documentation describes the formats of three types of files: - ASCII files includes .BAT (batch command script) files - .COM (memory image) files - .EXE (relocatable program) files Three other file types are mentioned, but their formats are never described: - .OBJ (object) files - .LIB (object library) files - .HEX files (mentioned in conjunction with .EXE files) Does anyone know anything about these last three file formats? I'm just curious about the .HEX format, but information on the .COM and .EXE formats would be extremely useful. By the way, wasn't there once a suggestion for a net.micro.pc newsgroup? -- Scott Stevens -- American Bell / Indianapolis