No. They're there for a reason.
You need a bit of a history lesson here:
- Zen Cart doesn't come with any "configure.php" files. If it did, then people would accidentally delete their original configure.php files by blindly uploading blank ones from the new version.
- Thus ZC supplies only dist-configure.php files (dist = "distribution"), which are simply stubs that you can rename to configure.php during your FIRST installation so that the installer process can write the collected information into them correctly.
- (The installer can't magically create NEW files, hence the instruction for you to create your own, or simply rename the dist-configure.php files to configure.php to make the process easier.)

If you did an install of ZC via some one-click install provided by your hosting company then you've missed out on all that important learning experience.

The contents of dist-configure.php are really moot, since they're never used. The zc_install installation process completely replaces the contents of configure.php when it is run and told to write out the collected configuration information.