Re: Boot/System/System.Setup

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

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


Uh...No.

	On the Apple IIgs, there are two types of INITs, TIFs, and PIFs. A
TIF is a Temporary Initialization File. It loads during startup, does its
stuff, and is then removed from memory. A PIF is a Permanent
Initialization File. These usually contain patches or add new
functionality to the system file. The PIF file type is also used for
Finder Extras, in System 6.0.1 .
	If you catalog the System/System.Setup directory, you will see
TIFs listed as type $B6, and PIFs listed as type $B7. (I _think_)

Stavros