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MakeDIZ - Get descriptions from .readme files
(C) 1996 by Piergiorgio Ghezzo
What's MakeDIZ ?
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Since Internet is here a lot of people prefers to get files for Amiga
directly from Aminet sites than from BBS: you connect there, you take
files and at the end of the session you find a directory full of files
that you don't remember what they are for. Fortunately all files in
Aminet have a descrition: infact every archive has his own .readme file
in which there is a descrition and other important informations.
This program borned to semplify life to a lot of persons that
continuosly control in the readme or in the recent what a file, founded
around in the HD, is for; it's very useful also for the Sysop that every
day must put in the BBS a lot of files and he needs an help to make this
operation quicker and automatic.
When you run it with the right parameters, the programs searches for
every archives inside a specific directory the correspondent .readme
file, it obtains the description and it puts it as comment for the file
(this can be useful both to see quickly what kind of file it is, both for
the automatic upload in a lot of BBS programs), it inserts in the archive
the FILE_ID.DIZ containing an intestation file, the file descrition, the
name of the author and the directory it was uploaded in.
Installation and use
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The program is very easy to use, infact it is sufficient to copy it in
a directory of your HD (i don't suggest you the RAM disk for obvious
reasons :-). It supports archives made by LHA, LhArc and DMS: to manage
them LHA and DMSdescript must be in the current directory or in the
searching path of the commands. Inside this archive I put DMSdescript
because it can be hard to find; I think that everybody has in his HD a
copy of LHA!
MakeDIZ has a series of parameters that you can use when you call it:
DIR This is the only needed parameter to the program: it shows the
directory where to search for files to process.
NOCOMM If you use this parameter the program doesn't write his
description in the archive's comment.
NODIZ If you use this parameter the program doesn't insert inside
the archive the FILE_ID.DIZ with his descrition.
NOINFO If you use this parameter the program doesn't add to the
FILE_ID.DIZ the name of the author and the directory where it
was uploaded in.
BANNER It is possible to insert in FILE_ID.DIZ the text in the file
specified by this parameter.
DATE In FILE_ID.DIZ it's possible to insert the date when the file
was created (e.g. to show the date of upload). If you use this
parameter then after the (suggested) banner it will be
inserted the current date, in the international format
(dd-mmm-yy), and after the description of the archive.
DELETE Using this parameter you can delete the .readme files after
using. If there's an error inserting the FILE_ID.DIZ in the
archive, the correspondent .readme file will not be deleted.
Example: MakeDIZ DH2:Aminet BANNER DH2:Univision.LOGO DATE DELETE
Distribution
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The MakeDIZ program is (C) by Piergiorgio Ghezzo and it is developed
under the concept of freeware: you don't need to register and the archive
can be developed freely, but you cannot modify or ask money to copy it.
You can insert the archive in PD libraries (e.g. Aminet CDs or disks with
magazines).
THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANY KIND OF PROBLEMS THIS PROGRAM MAY
CAUSE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. The original archive is virus free.
Author
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For suggestion or problems you can contact the author:
Piergiorgio Ghezzo
Via L. Loredan n.6
30126 Lido-Venezia
ITALIA
E-Mail: pghezzo@dsi.unive.it
2:333/707.0@fidonet.org
39:101/1.0@amiganet.ftn
Thanks to Simone Marascalchi for the english traslation.