Inf file question

[eidenk]

[sourceDisksFiles]blueberry.pancakes

[NotCopy.Copy]

blueberry.pancakes

What does this mean ?

It is part of choose.inf, quiet.inf and reboot.inf in the Media Player 6.4 installer.

[MDGx]

[sourceDisksFiles]

blueberry.pancakes

[NotCopy.Copy]

blueberry.pancakes

What does this mean ?

It is part of choose.inf, quiet.inf and reboot.inf in the Media Player 6.4 installer.

I guess some1 [with too much time to spare + sense of humor] wanted to add something "original" to the WMP 6.4 INFs...

"blueberry.pancakes" = fake value, can be safely removed or replaced with anything else, with no consequences.

"NotCopy.Copy" = fake section and value under the [DefaultInstall] section, can be safely removed or replaced with anything else.

[sourceDisksFiles] = INF section, not needed, can be safely removed.

As far as I'm aware, the only mandatory sections + values for a minimal [but functional] INF file to operate properly are:

[Version] = needs 1 of these 2 values:

Signature=$CHICAGO$ = interpreted same way by both 9x and NTx OSes

or:

Signature=$WINDOWS NT$ = strictly for NTx OSes

[DefaultInstall] = can be renamed to anything else, even no name [] or completely removed

[sourceDisksNames] = minimum functional value:

1=,,0

Except for the "Signature=$bla bla$" value which must go under the [Version] section, and for the "1=,,0" value which must go under the [sourceDisksNames] section, all other sections can be empty.

Even an empty [0 bytes] INF file can still be run without consequences [but it is useless, of course], and doesn't generate any errors nor messages/dialogs.

Official MS INF documentation [most relevant]:

- Win98 RK:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...t7/wrkappc.mspx

- Win2000 DDK:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/se...t_inf_files.asp

Hope this helps.