tkoppel@isis.UUCP (Ted Koppel) (09/11/89)
I was looking at my DOS subdirectory the other day (not something that I do too often) and noticed the following files: EGA CPI 49065 3-18-87 12:00p LCD CPI 10752 3-17-87 12:00p 4201 CPI 17089 3-18-87 12:00p 5202 CPI 459 3-17-87 12:00p BASIC PIF 369 3-17-87 12:00p BASICA PIF 369 3-17-87 12:00p (This is DOS 3.3 by the way). What are they? Do I need them? Thanks. -- Ted Koppel CARL - Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries = BITNET: TKOPPEL@DUCAIR UUCP: uunet!isis!tkoppel or tkoppel@du.edu
kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (09/13/89)
In article <2630@isis.UUCP> tkoppel@isis.UUCP (Ted Koppel) writes:
* I was looking at my DOS subdirectory the other day (not something that
* I do too often) and noticed the following files:
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* EGA CPI 49065 3-18-87 12:00p
* LCD CPI 10752 3-17-87 12:00p
* 4201 CPI 17089 3-18-87 12:00p
* 5202 CPI 459 3-17-87 12:00p
Umpty.CPIs is part of the "code pages"/"countrycode" business that goes
along with the dumpty.SYS keyboard and printer drivers. Unless you
are running (or plan to run) non-US-English stuff, you can delete all ..CPIs
and the related drivers. Refer to the incomprehensibobble to be found
(hopefully) in the back of your DOS reference manual.
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* BASIC PIF 369 3-17-87 12:00p
* BASICA PIF 369 3-17-87 12:00p
Umpty.PIFs are "Program Information Files" used by Microsoft Windows and/or
(IBM? somebody?) Topview. They tell the shell (Win or Tv) how to load/
allocate/hookup the ..COM, ..EXE or ..BAT file of the same first name.
If you are not running Win or Tv, you can dump the ..PIFs.
[[late thought--does GEM need them? are you running GEM?]]
[[note that HPs NewWave system is much like Windows and probably uses PIFs]]
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* (This is DOS 3.3 by the way).
..CPIs came in with DOS 3.0, I think.
..PIFs came in with Win and Tv, regardless of DOS revision.
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note--Win and Tv PIFs are _NOT_ all the same inside, although I _think_
Win can use Tv PIFs, and maybe Tv could use Win PIFs.
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regardz,
Ken