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executable file

In computing, a file – always a program of some kind – that can be run by the computer directly. The file will have been generated from a source program by an assembler or compiler. It will therefore not be coded in ASCII and will not be readable as text. On MS-DOS based systems executable files have an .EXE or .COM extension.



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