Re: Boot/System/System.Setup

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4rqotr$cjv@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
RUBYWAND <rubywand@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <4rn9o1$t4k@Mars.mcs.com>, bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters) writes:
>
>>
>>1. In my Boot:System:System:Setup folder I have a PIF named
>>   Fielder. What does it do? Where did it come from? ....
>
>     In Windows/PC-ese a PIF is a Program Information File. Usually, PIF's
>are created to tell Windows how to set up things (like graphics display,
>I/O, etc.) in order to run a DOS program. For example, a file named
>FIELDER.PIF might tell Windows how to set up for running FIELDER.EXE.
>
>     If your PIF is a genuine for-Windows file, then a guess is that some
>net server interface placed it in your System/System.Setup folder in order
>to facilitate interfacing with a Windows utility running on the server.
>System/System.Setup may have been chosen since it is one folder in a Boot
>partition's System folder which is guaranteed to be present.   
>
>
>Rubywand

Yes, but in the IIgs world where we live, PIF is a Permanent Initialization
File.

The big tip here was that it's "a PIF named Fielder" and not "a file named
fielder.pif".

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