Re: Boot/System/System.Setup

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

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

   And the GS has its own PIFs. If it's identified by the Finder as a
PIF, it's almost certainly a GS PIF. If its name ends in .PIF, it's a
windoze PIF. GS PIF means 'Permanent Init File', roughly equivalent to
a DOS TSR. There's also TIFs, which are Temporary Init Files-- after
being executed, the ram they occupy is released.

Nathan Mates
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