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GOOD ADVICE: Software authors should include a FILE_ID.DIZ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brianr@globaldialog.com)
Wed Aug 23 15:27:41 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:33:18 GMT
From: Brianr@globaldialog.com
Reply-To: Brianr@globaldialog.com
Submitted by: Brian Ruppert (brianr@globaldialog.com)
Source: Brian Ruppert (brianr@globaldialog.com)
Date received: 1995 August 17
Date posted: 1995 August 22
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I've noticed something in common with a huge number of OS/2 applications:
Authors don't include a FILE_ID.DIZ.
OS/2 authors, if you could all spend a few seconds writing one, you'll save
SysOps all over the world who want to distribute your software hours upon
hours.
It's come to the point where a lot of really good programs written for OS/2
have been simply dropped in a "I don't know what this file is" area because
no one wants to search through hundreds of documentation files.
