Summary:

    Often applications wish to extract information from an executable 
file without the application being loaded.  The Windows Program Manager 
does this when it extracts an icon from the .EXE to represent the 
application.  There are many other resources and tables in an EXE file 
(or a DLL) that may be useful to certain applications.  The RESEXT 
sample demonstrates how to extract and decode these resources for 
executable or library files (FONTS and DRVs qualify as DLLs).

More Information:

    The RESEXT sample uses the Old and New Header formats has documented 
in the Microsoft MS-DOS Encyclopedia. RESEXT loads these headers and the 
Resource Table. RESEXT will also load the icon, cursor, and bitmap 
resources that can be found in the resource table and lets the user save
these resources in files.

    For more information on the file formats and resource formats see 
the MS-DOS Encyclopedia, The September 1991 Microsoft Systems Journal 
or the Microsoft Open Tools documentation.
