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

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280 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | 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. GranPC ◴[16 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.44008347[source]▶
Back in the day, sending the string ".pif" to any MSN Messenger group chat was enough to immediately disable it for everyone. Fun way of dealing with spam :)