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How come people still haven't figured out how to make proper file_id.diz's? I mean.. The standard has said 44x11 characters for how many years now? Want more? Use an nfo!
added on the 2008-12-23 15:46:15 by arcane arcane
And,.. What ISO/IEC number does the file_id.diz standard have?

Merry Christmas :)
added on the 2008-12-23 15:54:38 by datsua datsua
I still haven't figured out why some people still care about file_id.diz at all.
added on the 2008-12-23 16:02:43 by torus torus
That's true, as there's no real point in it any more. But if you do add one..
added on the 2008-12-23 16:25:59 by arcane arcane
i always make sure mine are 45x12, just to annoy arcane.
added on the 2008-12-23 16:57:02 by xeron xeron
Probably most people don't know that there is a standard for file_id.diz (I also didn't know it's limited to 11 lines, I only thought the width was limited to 40 characters per line).
added on the 2008-12-23 17:17:01 by Adok Adok
So. Uhm. Why is it 44x11 anyway??!
added on the 2008-12-23 17:34:20 by raer raer
http://www.textfiles.com/computers/fileid.txt
Quote:
The file consists of straight ASCII text, up to 10 lines of text, each line
being no more than 45 characters long. It should *NOT* contain any blank
lines, any form of centering or formatting, or any Hi-ASCII or ANSI
characters. (i.e. it should ONLY contain alpha & numeric characters).
added on the 2008-12-23 17:37:07 by Gargaj Gargaj
arcane: Øl i Oslo i romjula?
added on the 2008-12-23 17:58:24 by kusma kusma
No formatting? That also means one shouldn't rely on fixed width spaces? But ASCII drawings require them.
added on the 2008-12-23 18:01:01 by Adok Adok
There are still good reasons to use file_id.diz and it should be mandatory for all kind of releases.

NUKED CREDITS*10 BY BOSS-NUKE C0Z NO FILE_ID
added on the 2008-12-23 18:28:16 by dIGIMAN dIGIMAN
That HiAscii thing is something every file_id.diz in recorded history has violated :)

hí DÖødZ! (this was much simpler on a500 btw)
added on the 2008-12-23 20:22:57 by El Topo El Topo
I thought you were all talking about my skype id.
added on the 2008-12-23 20:41:48 by xernobyl xernobyl
BRING BACK THE HANDDRAWN FLOPPY-SLEEVE COMIC !!!!!!!!!!!1zwölf

OR ELSE !!!!11!!..!een!
added on the 2008-12-23 20:46:47 by havoc havoc
@Raredolf: It's the standard used for dirlistings on BBSs, hence the format.
added on the 2008-12-24 13:39:32 by arcane arcane
what
added on the 2008-12-24 14:45:20 by ricky martin ricky martin
arcane, i was going on about this issue for years, but noone cares. so i stopped caring as well.
added on the 2008-12-24 15:55:22 by dipswitch dipswitch
merry christmas.
added on the 2008-12-24 15:55:34 by dipswitch dipswitch
rulez are there to be broken
individualism cant be replaced by conformity
added on the 2008-12-24 15:57:32 by elkmoose elkmoose
because no-one uses bbs anymore? O_o
added on the 2008-12-24 17:24:03 by bfx bfx
file_id.diz, what they said.
added on the 2008-12-24 20:32:21 by gentleman gentleman
@bk237: Then people shouldn't use file_id.diz's either.. It's just like splitting releases into 1.44MB zip-files, *cough* 0day *cough*.
added on the 2008-12-24 23:44:58 by arcane arcane
just copy a random pr0n-jpeg to file_id.diz and be done with it already
added on the 2008-12-25 00:09:53 by Hatikvah Hatikvah

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