PIF (file)

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The PIF editor under Windows 1.03 with a sample configuration for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet .

The file extension PIF ( .pif; an abbreviation for . English program information file ) in IBM's TopView introduced and later in both Quarterdecks DESQview and in Microsoft Windows used to certain settings for running DOS - programs to remember (eg. Information about the parameters with which a program is to be started, which program is to be started, which memory settings should apply to the program, whether the program is a pure DOS application (full display) or, in the case of Microsoft Windows, whether it is in a window under Windows should be shown and which font and size should be used in the window display).

Windows

PIF files - in Explorer (up to Windows XP ) called "Link to an application for MS-DOS" and later (at the latest with Windows 7 ) "Link to MS-DOS program" or also called "Link to MS-DOS program" - are a holdover from the MS-DOS era and a forerunner of the (file) link ( .lnk). They were to connect to 16-bit - applications used are similar Exe - Com - or Bat files bootable and are often among the executable files listed. However, this property (the practicability) can of viruses - programmers are misused computers to infect.

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  1. ↑ DOS window or restart in MS-DOS mode not possible (requires JavaScript ) - Microsoft , last change on December 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Chapter 6: File and Folder Management - in Windows 7 , on page 255; a paperback by Winfried Seimert. 1st edition. 2010 in HJR-Verlag ; ISBN 978-3-8266-8183-7 .
  3. ↑ Managing Blocked File Types in SharePoint 2013 - Microsoft TechNet , last changed on November 16, 2015.