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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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271 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.491s | source
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mmastrac ◴[16 May 25 14:34 UTC] No.44006007[source]▶
Remember the good old days of editing PIF (Program Information Files) files [⁂]? Ah yeah.

Googling a bit, it looks like a lot of this lore has just been lost. I don't know if there are modern explanations of PIF files kicking around.

⁂ I realize this is an ATM machine phrasing, but we called them PIF files in the day.

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1. deaddodo ◴[16 May 25 15:43 UTC] No.44006802[source]▶
There's still plenty of information on the file format kicking around:

https://www.fileformat.info/format/pif/corion.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20220214185118/http://www.smsoft...

As well as a basic explanation of the file's purpose:

http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Program_information_fi...

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2. mmastrac ◴[16 May 25 17:55 UTC] No.44008148[source]▶
The second link is exactly what I was hoping for, but only seems to exist on the archive. I wasn't able to locate it or other detailed information with my cursory searches. I'm glad it was preserved.