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- @Begin_FilePath.lst
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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZEasily manipulate FILE_ID.DIZ from within
- DOpus4 without external ARexx skripts! No
- joke, use this NOW!
- Done by NeURODANCER/ABYSS^1oo%
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-
-
- Introduction
- --------------
- Are you a serious sysop? And are you fucked up with all that shitheads
- adding nonsense to file_id.diz descriptions? Are you editing file_id's
- therefore to fit your high standard of seriousness? Are you fucked with
- Diz-Ed's limited features? Are you even more fucked with stoopid ARexx
- fuck for DOpus that is deadly slow and uncomfortable? Are you feeling like
- there should be an easy way for editing File_ID.diz files from your good
- ol' DOpus4? There is!
-
-
-
- Requirements
- --------------
- This little documenation is based on the fact that you KNOW how to use the
- different archivers and/or File_ID.diz extract/add tools that exist for
- numerous filetypes such as TXT/DMS/EXE/MOD/GIF etc. If you are too lame to
- use a shell, then go and stick the finger back in your ass where it
- belongs, lamer! At least for sure not on an Amiga's keyboard.
-
- Further, to process certain filetypes, you need the corresponding tools for
- it. But which serious Amiga user hasn't? This method of editing
- File_ID.diz was ONLY tested with DOpus4, I did not upgrade to V5 because I
- really think it suxx, and is even slower than V4 already is - seems those
- dudes did it the wrong way; and YES, I am registered DOpus user!
-
- Enuff rude words, let it go. Here's how:
-
-
-
- Buttonbank editor
- -------------------
- Make a button "Ed File_ID.diz" or call it whatever else. Set the Action
- for this button to DOpus internal command "User4" (or 3 or whatever...).
-
-
-
- Filetype editor
- -----------------
- Click on any filetype that supports File_ID.diz (DMS, LhA, LZX etc...).
- Scroll down the actions bar to the entry "User4". Editor must be able to
- stick on the calling process and NOT detach itself (e.g. call CygnusEd
- with "CED -keepio" and set stack to 8192 bytes).
-
-
-
- Theory of operation:
-
- AmigaDOS <extract file_id.diz>
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS <editor> <file_id.diz>
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS <delete/update file_id.diz>
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS Delete <file_id.diz>
-
-
-
- Example for LhA archives:
-
- AmigaDOS LhA e {ou} File_ID.diz T:
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS CED -keepio T:File_ID.diz
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS LhA r {o} T:File_ID.diz
- Command FinishSection
- AmigaDOS Delete T:File_ID.diz
-
-
-
-
- Conclusion
- ------------
- Easy, hu?! Yes... just learn to use Directory Opus, and you need NO DAMN
- BULLSHIT ARexx script from some warm houses BBS' or any crap patch for
- Diz-Ed that sacrifices ZIP support for LZX, while Diz-Ed does only support
- 12 lines of File_ID.diz at all.
-
- To process DMS/GIF/EXE/TXT/MOD files you obviously need the corresponding
- tools to add/extract/update File_ID.diz descriptions from/to these
- filetypes.
-
-
-
- Attention
- -----------
- TXTExtract does TRASH the textfile completely when adding a File_ID.diz to
- a file that already HAS such a description.
-
- DMSDescript simply APPENDS the description, so before you add the changed
- File_ID.diz, delete the old one! Simply insert the lines to delete the
- description from the archive before you add the changed one - don't forget
- the "FinishSection" command, thats most important.
-
- To easily use this with ZIP archives, its best you use TUnZip 5.12 by
- Michael Bockert which is e.g. included in the Tempest BBS package, since
- it allows you to extract to a user defined destination path.
-
- In its purest definition, a File_ID.diz description has the format of
- 44x12. You should BY NO MEANS use more that 44 columns, and if you are
- serious, you won't need to put any stoopid logos in front of a short
- descriptions that helps every interest duder in identifying a file.
-
-
-
- Addendum
- --------
- As you can extract File_ID.diz description this way, you can even use this
- method to simply VIEW file_id.diz files from ANY filetype you want. You
- just have to let DOpus know of the filetype, and there you go! You can then
- use the DOpus internal textviewer to display the description! Could it be
- easier? NO!
-
- Okey dudes, thats all. Hope you enjoy this, as you finally found the easiest
- way to do File_ID.diz editing in DOpus!
-
-
-
- Some Words
- ------------
- Scene is really getting totally lame these days. Everyone is pulling files
- outta the Aminet only, puts a stoopid File_ID.diz with NO WORTH at all in
- front of it, and spreads it on the boards. Others do it just the same, yet
- they use a different name, and so you have tons of duplicate uploads on
- every BBS. Furthermore, a lot of Aminet stuff isn't new at all - but none
- is interested in the quality of its uploads, they only want to make it BIG
- and BOLD and STUPID. Or what do you think of a File_ID.diz that contains
- an "Internet" logo (LaMERZZZZZ!!!!) and the program name. A LOT of useful
- information, or? I really apply to ALL sysops to radically NUKE stuff that
- has no propper description! I care a lot about quality on my BBS, and I
- really wonder if it is enuff to be a "kEWl" asshole to be hip. It really
- seems it doesn't matter if one hardly knows how to use his own BBS program,
- and if one constantly adds 20k IFF pictures and random named adds in every
- archive, as long as he pretends to be "0-dAy" and "kEWL eLiTE".
-
- I don't want to attack all the serious sysops out there who have an
- attitude for quality when running they're BBS (lucky there are some cool
- dudes left!), but I want to say FUCK YOU to all the above described dudes.
-
- Selfish and on the ego-trip, thats what the Amiga scene is today.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
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- NeURODANCER/ABYSS^1oo%
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