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I completely forgot this was a thing, but its existence was etched in my brain. I wasn't aware that anybody read those files. The name would fly by when extract
by asveikau 2y ago
I completely forgot this was a thing, but its existence was etched in my brain. I wasn't aware that anybody read those files. The name would fly by when extracting a zip, but that's it.
- Agingcoder 2y agoI did. Before the internet, I read just about everything I could find - there might valuable information in it !
- Sharlin 2y agoWell, their whole point was to be read and displayed by BBS software (and later by some early download websites I guess) to help users decide what to download in the first place, so they were indeed not expected to be opened by the user after downloading.
- tracker1 2y agoThat's actually a different feature of (PK-)ZIP, but often the same file. It was a command line switch in pkzip to add a file to display when extracting the contents. FILE_ID.DIZ was mostly about auto-importing file descriptions with BBS software. Especially helpful with message networks that included distributed file areas, like FidoNet.