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Darkmatter
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nfo viewer

hi there!

i came accross the question how difficult it would be to add an nfo viewer to the available software. it would come in handy to have something like that on stick.

i thought i suggest it and let meself be suprised if the idea gets yozur approval or not.

Greetings.

p.s.: good job guys - i´m using you suite some months now and never got problems.

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.nfo files seem to be just text files. So just use Notepad or Notepad++ Portable or something like that.

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"Special"

I believe they're somewhat of an "art-form", typically making extensive use of ASCII art, so many text viewers don't display them nicely. Still, I would think something like Notepad++ could be configured to do just that.

I remember seeing a discussion somewhere once about what makes NFO files so special and why a standard text editor doesn't cut it but I can't recall the arguments put forth. I personally have no need for such a tool.

To the OP, try looking on PortableFreeware for NFO viewers.

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NP++

Notepad++ does display such files indeed as they're supposed to, without any additional configuration necesarry.

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Notepad++

Current versions of Notepad++ do a better job of displaying NFO files than most one-hit-winder NFO apps.

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just use a standard Text editor

wordpad notepad and whatnot. nfo is also a MS help file so i have had some issues with NFO files opening in XP.

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