meaning of exclamation point
1. exclamation point exclamation mark EXE /eksee/ or /eeksee/ or /E-X-E/ An executable binary file. Some operating systems notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX use the extension . EXE to mark such files. This usage is also occasionally found among Unix programmers even though Unix executables dont have any required suffix. [Jargon File] EXEC