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1996-09-03
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--------E-PIF-------------------------------
The Program Information Files have stayed a long time with the PC. They
origi- nated from IBMs Topview, were carried on by DoubleView and
DesqView, and today they are used by Windows and Windows NT. The PIF
files store additional information about executables that are foreign to
the running multitasking system such as ressource usage, keyboard and
mouse virtualization and hotkeys. The original (Topview) PIF had a size
of 171h bytes, after that, there come the various extensions for the
different operating environments. The different extensions are discussed
in their own sections.
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 byte reserved
0001h 1 byte Checksum
0002h 30 char Title for the window
0020h 1 word Maximum memory reserved for program
0022h 1 word Minimum memory reserved for program
0024h 63 char Path and filename of the program
0063h 1 byte 0 - Do not close window on exit
other - Close window on exit
0064h 1 byte Default drive (0=A: ??)
0065h 64 char Default startup directory
00A5h 64 char Parameters for program
00E5h 1 byte Initial screen mode, 0 equals mode 3 ?
00E6h 1 byte Text pages to reserve for program
00E7h 1 byte First interrupt used by program
00E8h 1 byte Last interrupt used by program
00E9h 1 byte Rows on screen
00EAh 1 byte Columns on screen
00EBh 1 byte X position of window
00ECh 1 byte Y position of window
00EDh 1 word System memory ?? whatever
00EFh 64 char ?? Shared program path
012Fh 64 char ?? Shared program data file
016Fh 1 word Program flags
EXTENSION:PIF,DVP
OCCURENCES:PC
PROGRAMS:Topview, DesqView, Windows
REFERENCE:see DDJ #202, July 1993, QuarterDeck SDK
SEE ALSO:Windows PIF, Windows NT PIF
VALIDATION: