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DIZZY, v1.03
DOS utility: FILE_ID.DIZ off-line reformatter
Freeware, copyright (c) 1994 [94/03/09]
by
David Daniel Anderson
Reign Ware
** READ REIGNWAR.TXT FOR LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO **
DIZZY reformats any text file (with lines up to 255 characters long)
into 44 (or an alternate length) character lines, preparing it for
use as a FILE_ID.DIZ (a BBS .ZIP file contents descriptor).
PCBoard BBS's typically use the FILE_ID.DIZ (if it exists as a file within
the .ZIP file) as the upload description, and require that description to
be a maximum of 8 lines at up to 44 characters each. DIZZY won't remove
extra lines: it is up to the user to edit, and up to DIZZY to reformat what
the user has written.
*** WARNING!!! DIZZY OVERWRITES THE INPUT FILE, SO MAKE SURE
THAT YOU EITHER WORK ON A COPY OF YOUR FILES OR YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU START. ***
It will be impossible to have your file returned be to its original
state, but you may be able to retrieve the original with an undelete
program.
However, DIZZY does not remove text, so no matter what happens, you
will still have everything that you started with.
Usage: DIZZY <file_id.diz> [line_length]
DIZZY takes one or two parameters on the command line: the name of the
file(s) to reformat and the line length desired.
The file name may contain wildcards, for example: "DIZZY *.diz" (without the
quotes) would reformat all files with the extension ".diz".
The line length must be a number between 40 and 127. The default (used if
none is specified) is 44 characters.
Note: DIZZY removes leading and trailing spaces from all lines, and changes
all occurrences of multiple spaces into single spaces. It leaves hard tabs
and ASCII 255 (a blank character that is not a space) intact.
Finally, I have noticed a couple of FILE_ID.DIZ editors available, but have
not tried them. I wrote (and use) DIZZY because I don't want to learn how to
use another editor - especially if the author is asking for a registration
fee. I like DIZZY because, like most of my programs, it is small, simple,
fast, and free. I really do not need or want a mule of a GUI like Microsoft
Windows (tm).
** READ REIGNWAR.TXT FOR LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO **
{------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REVISION HISTORY
v1.00 : 1993/07/14. First public release. DDA
v1.01 : 1993/08/27. Fixed bug: would not properly process files in
directories other than the current one. DDA
v1.01a : 1993/09/24. Added ability to set line length. DDA
Improved the "showhelp" procedure. DDA
v1.02 : 1994/01/24. Now formats 'file_id.diz' if no parameters found on
the command line. DDA
v1.03 : 1994/03/09. Fixed problem with solid lines exceeding line length.
Error pointed out by Mark Shadley, fixed by DDA.
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