Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
FILE ID.DIZ
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==See also== * [[.nfo]] — another standard for description files * [[README]] * [[Portable Application Description]] — a newer and more verbose alternative * [[Standard (warez)]] * [[Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions|SAUCE]] — an architecture or protocol created in 1994 for attaching metadata or comments to files. In use today as the de facto standard within the [[ANSI art]] community.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acid.org/info/sauce/sauce.htm |title=Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions |author=Olivier "Tasmaniac" Reubens |date=2013-11-12 |work=ACiD}}</ref> * {{anchor|DESC.SDI}}[[DESC.SDI]] — a similar filename that had fairly wide support, including [[PCBoard]]. It tended to be limited to a single line (smaller than a FILE_ID.DIZ file). * {{anchor|DESCRIPT.ION}}[[DESCRIPT.ION]] — a text file containing line by line [[file descriptions|file (and directory) descriptions]] (and optional [[meta data]]), originally introduced by [[JP Software]] in 1989<ref name="JP_1989_DESC"/>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)