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  2. ## $VER: OPUS.FILE_ID.DIZtxt 2.1
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  4.  
  5. There is something new (?) to the Amiga community... The FILE_ID.DIZ text
  6. in archives. In a lot of archives you will find a file called FILE_ID.DIZ.
  7. There SHOULD be a description of the archive in this text, so it would be
  8. nice if you are able to read only that one file from an archive. 
  9.  
  10. Here is a button in OPUS that will do just that for you.
  11.  
  12.  
  13. choose a button/menu of your likes, and edit in the next lines:
  14.  
  15. ---------------------------------------
  16. AmigaDOS    LHA e {f} FILE_ID.DIZ ram:
  17. Command     FinishSection
  18. Command     read ram:FILE_ID.DIZ
  19. AmigaDOS    Delete ram:FILE_ID.DIZ
  20.  
  21.  
  22. NO FLAGS, NO NOTHING MORE...
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  25.  
  26. You will need LHA (obviously) and delete in your searchpath.
  27.  
  28. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  29. !                                                                         !
  30. ! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE everybody, do NOT abuse the FILE_ID.DIZ text for   !
  31. ! those idiotic adverts. The .DISPLAYME was killed due to those axxhole   !
  32. ! who couldn't resist kicking in an extra displayme, so you would         !
  33. ! sometimes run into a LHA file with lot of bbs-adds, swap requsts etc..  !
  34. ! I once unpacked a 57 K archive in which were 30 K (!!!!), displaymes's. !
  35. ! It is shit for the modem, because the files grow bigger and bigger, and !
  36. ! even bigger...(In the 57 K arc there was ONE (1 !) executable of 28 K I !
  37. ! needed (!))                                                             !
  38. !                                                                         !
  39. ! There should only be one FILE_ID.DIZ allowed in each archive, so PLEASE !
  40. ! if it IS present, and states the contents of the archive,               !
  41. !                                                                         !
  42. !                       LEAVE IT ALONE                                    !
  43. !                                                                         !
  44. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  48.  Let me know what you think, and if you use it (and why not...?).
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