Pure NFO Viewer v1.1 (Version Updated)

cabaptista · Post by **cabaptista** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:52 pm

Version 1.1 is out !
Click Here to download it.
In this version, i changed the LISTVIEW object to El_Choni's RichEdit.

Pure NFO Viewer is a little program that i wrote to read NFO WAREZ files with the correct ASCII caracter set.
Also you can associate .nfo extension to it.

Click Here to download version 1.0.

The application is very simple to install.
Just create a directory called "Pure NFO Viewer" somewhere in your disk and copy the .exe file inside it and voilÃ¡.

Sources are include it.

Check it out, put additional features, tell me everything about it.

Thanks in advance to all PureBasic Users.

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:01 pm

AlGonzalez · Post by **AlGonzalez** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:31 pm

dmoc wrote:NFO?

Files with an .nfo extension usually give "info" about the files that are included with it.
They often contain ASCII art and use certain characters to make box borders and such.

Most fonts in Windows do not support these characters so you don't get to view the file as intended.

HTH

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:47 pm

DriakTravo · Post by **DriakTravo** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:18 pm

Hey! very nice work!

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:25 pm

personlly i just use edit (the built in dos "notepad")

Kris_a · Post by **Kris_a** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:46 pm

ah, very nice

.nfo is quite popular with WAREZ!

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:47 pm

Nice work and nice Icons!!!

darklordz · Post by **darklordz** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:54 pm

nfo file are also windows system files and contain hw information...

AlGonzalez · Post by **AlGonzalez** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:20 pm

darklordz wrote:nfo file are also windows system files and contain hw information...

Are you sure you aren't thinking about ".inf" files?

darklordz · Post by **darklordz** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:52 pm

no i am not....

check the registry (windowsxp) in hkey_classes root look up .nfo... it says
MSInfo.Document then look up MSInfo.Document in hkey_classes root the default value = MSInfo File and the Friendlyname is @C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\msinfo.dll,-391

clicking on an nfo file in winxp starts up the system device thingy...program.....

DriakTravo · Post by **DriakTravo** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:25 am

Yes, BUT! Right click a .nfo file and goto Open with > Choose Program and then select notepad - or open one from notepad manually.

When you open them normally, they just open the HW viewer and tell of an error.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:20 am

NFO extension is common among the warez groups as a readme file that also contains ANSII graphics. Then Microsoft decided to use the NFO extension for their MSInfo files.

darklordz · Post by **darklordz** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:12 am

@all i was merely stating that there is more then just 1 type of nfo for those that don't know.. and a separate viewer is fine as long as it restores the previous asociation on uninstall....that might be a good option to add.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:47 am

Some *.nfo resourses:
http://www.defacto2.net/nfo-files.cfm
I think in the old days *.nfo files where a way that BBS's organised data and used them as a kind of automatic descriptor for files. So you would read the *.nfo before downloading a potentially large download on 9600 baud. You had to be sure you got the right file you was after before starting.