X-pack for Executable
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
X-pack for Executable (not to be confused with XPACK) is a DOS executable compression utility developed by Sergey Belyakov, Jibz (see aPACK), and JauMing Tseng (see XPACK) (early versions credit "Kevin Tseng" instead). It's possible that it is also known as XE; the program filename is XE.EXE.
It compresses .EXE, .COM, some LE, and TMT/ADAM.
Its relationships to aPACK and XPACK are not completely clear. Its file signatures are similar to those of aPACK.
Identification
Compressed DOS EXE files apparently have ASCII signature "jmXE32" at offset 26. And they have bytes 01 00 at offset 24 (refer to MS-DOS_EXE#Special file positions), which is rare.
Compressed files can resemble aPACK-compressed files, so see also aPACK#Identification.
Software
- X-pack for Executable
- xe.zip - v1.4.5
- ANORMAL's DOSEXE collections → Executable Tools Pack → packers/x-pack.*belyakov*
- XE (X-pack for Executable), at old-dos.ru
