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{{Short description|Plain-text file describing the archive to which it belongs}} {{Redirect|DIZ|other uses|Diz (disambiguation){{!}}Diz}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:FILE_ID.DIZ}} [[File:FILE_ID_DIZ.png|thumb]] '''FILE_ID.DIZ''' is a [[plain-text]] file containing a brief description of the content of the [[archive formats|archive]] to which it belongs.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Fong | first1 = B. C. | last2 = Doyle | first2 = D. J. | doi = 10.1016/0020-7101(95)01126-Y | title = Renal function tests for windows β a model for the development and distribution of medical software on the Internet | journal = International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing | volume = 40 | issue = 1 | pages = 69β75 | year = 1995 | pmid = 8557407}} "Short ANSI text file (31 characters wide) often automatically extracted by Bulletin Board Service programs."</ref> Such files were originally used in archives distributed through [[bulletin board system]]s (BBSes) and is still used in the [[warez scene]]. {{mono|FILE_ID}} stands for "file identification". {{mono|DIZ}} stands for "description in [[zipfile]]".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=White |first1=Ron |date=July 2001 |title=Mystery Files |journal=Ziff Davis Smart Business |volume=14 |issue=7 |page=100 |issn=1535-9891 |quote=DIZ stands for Description in Zip. }}</ref> Traditionally, a FILE_ID.DIZ should be "up to 10 lines of text, each line being no more than 45 characters long", according to v.1.9 of the specification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.textfiles.com/computers/fileid.txt |title=FILEID.TXT v1.9|first=Richard |last=Holler |date=1994-05-17}}</ref> The concept of .DIZ files was to allow for a concise description of uploaded files to be automatically applied.
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