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to: mark lewis
from: Gert Koefoed Andersen
date: 2004-06-12 10:24:00
subject: New File(s)

Hello mark.

11 Jun 04 19:15, you wrote to me:

 ml>>> please try to ensure that the file_id.diz follows the
 ml>>> file-id.diz specs... definitely try to ensure that it
 ml>>> carries CRLF line endings ;)

 GKA>> When I write the file_id.diz files I allways use to first
 GKA>> write a short line first desc. and then using the return key
 GKA>> tast for new lines and not using to just write in one long
 GKA>> line.

 ml> that's good... i hate to see some of the diz's that come thru using
 ml> graphic characters to make some fancy looking banner at the top of the
 ml> diz advertising some mod group or somesuch... my system takes the file
 ml> descriptions from the diz's and puts them directly into html for
 ml> display on the internet... many times those graphics look like a lot
 ml> of crap in that environment... the diz spec calls for lines x
 ml> characters long and no more than y lines long... can't remember those
 ml> numbers but the diz spec is available if you need it...

 ml> BTW: thanks for your good work in this ;)

I had allways used to let the first line be in a skort line like filename
and version and so it the desciption skown this and then from line 2 do it
longer with 10 letters more for each line.

Gert

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