12-27-2018, 10:08 PM
The full name is FILE_ID.DIZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ
For example, say you wanted to upload an article titled "How to Make a Serial-to-TCP Adapter for Vintage Computers" as a textfile with the filename "dd_01_01.asc". (It's customary to use a DOS 8.3 filename since that was the usual character limit for filenames back in the day).
First you'd type the article into a text file, with a carriage return at or before the 80th column on each line so it'll fit an 80-column text display, and save it as "dd_01_01.asc".
Then you'd open a second text file and type the description like so:
and save it as "FILE_INFO.DIZ".
Then you'd zip the two text files together as "dd_01_01.zip".
When you upload it, the BBS extracts the .DIZ info and displays that as the description in the files list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ
For example, say you wanted to upload an article titled "How to Make a Serial-to-TCP Adapter for Vintage Computers" as a textfile with the filename "dd_01_01.asc". (It's customary to use a DOS 8.3 filename since that was the usual character limit for filenames back in the day).
First you'd type the article into a text file, with a carriage return at or before the 80th column on each line so it'll fit an 80-column text display, and save it as "dd_01_01.asc".
Then you'd open a second text file and type the description like so:
FILE_INFO.DIZ Wrote:dd_01_01.asc
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How to Make a Serial-to-TCP Adapter for Vintage Computers
Phun Philes Volume 1, Issue 5
April 1, 2018
and save it as "FILE_INFO.DIZ".
Then you'd zip the two text files together as "dd_01_01.zip".
When you upload it, the BBS extracts the .DIZ info and displays that as the description in the files list.
