http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=PMexe 2026-08-16T15:46:06Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=PMexe&diff=51926&oldid=prev 2026-07-24T14:22:20Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 14:22, 24 July 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''PMexe''' is an executable compression utility for CP/M, developed by Yoshihiko Mino. It requires PMarc (see [[PMA]]).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''PMexe''' is an executable compression utility for CP/M, developed by Yoshihiko Mino. It requires PMarc (see [[PMA]]).</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The only known version is 2.00. PMexe does not seem to have been used very much. No files made by it have been found in the wild.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See also [[PopCom!]], a similar utility by the same author.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>See also [[PopCom!]], a similar utility by the same author.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Identification ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Identification ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More research is needed</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Files start with the bytes in the PMEXE2.COM file, aside from some padding at the end of the file.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">They start with bytes (hex) {{magic|18 52}}, have &quot;{{magic|-pms-}}&quot; at offset 2, and a message starting with &quot;PMexe&quot; at offset 14</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Assuming PMexe files start with the bytes in the PMEXE2.COM file, they unfortunately have the same signature as </del>[[PMsfx]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">: ASCII &quot;{{magic|-pms-}}&quot; at offset 2. 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Jsummers http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=PMexe&diff=44195&oldid=prev 2023-02-20T13:45:25Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Compression |subcat2=Executable compression |released=≤1990 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;PMexe&#039;&#039;&#039; is an executable compression utility for CP/M, develop...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Compression<br /> |subcat2=Executable compression<br /> |released=≤1990<br /> }}<br /> '''PMexe''' is an executable compression utility for CP/M, developed by Yoshihiko Mino. It requires PMarc (see [[PMA]]).<br /> <br /> See also [[PopCom!]], a similar utility by the same author.<br /> <br /> == Identification ==<br /> More research is needed.<br /> <br /> Assuming PMexe files start with the bytes in the PMEXE2.COM file, they unfortunately have the same signature as [[PMsfx]]: ASCII &quot;{{magic|-pms-}}&quot; at offset 2. For PMexe v2.00, a message starting with &quot;PMexe&quot; appears at offset 14.<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * PMexe: [http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/utils/archive/pm-utils.pma pm-utils.pma] → PMEXE2.*<br /> <br /> [[Category:CP/M]]</div>

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