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Microsoft Corporation, 1999, Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format, Revision 6.0

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Author	Microsoft Corporation
Publication date	01 Feb 1999
Title	Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format, Revision 6.0
Publisher	Microsoft Corporation
Identifier(s)	URL: www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx
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Portable Executable Format

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Availability note	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format
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Publication date	25 Feb 2023
Title	Portable Executable Format
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Note	This specification describes the structure of executable (image) files and object files under the Windows family of operating systems. These files are referred to as Portable Executable (PE) and Common Object File Format (COFF) files, respectively.