Fredrik: It seems that something went wrong when Kai uploaded this archive
         in May 98. Well .. here's another try!


This is yet another FileID-extractor for fileinformation (file_id.diz) as
found in AmiNet-files, BBS-systems, etc.  What makes it different from
other FileID-extractors is :

- Supports MPEG audio files
- Can be used to extract single files
- Can operate in Aminet-mode, i.e. look out for readme files
- Recursion into subdirectories
- Huge graphical user interface (useable w/o GUI as well)
- Extracts faster than other programs
- Multidirectory support
- Different ways of sorting
- No external programs (except LHa,Unzip,Lzx,cfx) required
- 1000s of options
- The program is continuously updated and will be expanded even
  further

Supported filetypes are:  Aminet-.readme-files Exe, Dms, Txt, Lha/Lzh, Lzx,
Zip, MPEG-audio files all other files are examined via cfx (Crunched File
Examiner by Bob Rye), if present.

Remeber that FiDED is EMail-Ware, which means that you have to send me an
E-Mail or Snailmail if you use the program regularly.  I'll then keep you
informed about future releases and updates if you want to.


Version history

V39.553 (13.05.1998)

        · Fixed serious bug in RECURSE-parts which
          caused incomplete scanning (sometimes)
        · Added two new options PRINTDIRNAME and
          DONTPRINTSUBDIRNAME

V39.547 (06.04.1998)	Eleventh release to the Aminet

	· MPEG audio support. This bits of code is based on 
	  mp3info by Thorvald Natvig and Mike Cheng
	· Added MPEGVERBOSE commandline option

V39.525 (13.03.1998)	Homepage-bugfix update

	· Sorry, yesterday's release still had some
	  problems with the sorting, especially in
	  the DATE/REVDATE modes

V39.516 (12.03.1998)	Homepage-bugfix update

	· Sortmode REVDATE added (this option was not
	  mentioned in the 39.503-history entry below; still
	  it is documented and implemented in that version)
	· The sorting/date-separator went completely bonkers
	  in the DATE and REVDATE-sorting modes. Fixed      
	· Added more abbreviations for the commandline
	  options
	· Silly error in the welcome-message. Find that
	  one for yourself. It's really embarassing...

V39.503 (07.03.1998)	Tenth release to the Aminet

	· Backslash characters '\\\' did appear wrongly in
	  previous versions of this document. Fixed.
	· Comments will now be included in dirfile
	  (see new options : NOCOMMENTS, COMMENTSFIRST)
	· Textfiles may be included at the start and
	  end of the dirfile (new options: TOPTEXT and
	  BOTTOMTEXT)
	· SORTBY-tooltype did not work. Fixed.

V39.457 (15.12.1997)	Homepage-only update

	· The percent sign can be replaced by \$ in all
	  pattern strings to prevent clashes with Diskmaster
	  or other programs that use %s or %d for other purposes.

V39.455 (07.11.1997)	Ninth release to the Aminet (last
			version didn't appear there!)

	· SORT-tooltype was broken in last version. Fixed.
	· 7 new values for SIZEMODE: k,m,kb,mb,K,M,auto. Caution:
	  SIZEMODE arguments are now case-sensitive
	· Dateoutput can be turned off (will leave more space
	  for the filename). Use the option/tooltype NODATE
	· NOINFO tooltype/option just prints raw file id's
	· Finally: FiDED (when started from shell) may be
	  aborted by sending an Control-C signal.

V39.429 (30.10.1997)	Ninth release to the Aminet

	· New tooltype/option CHOPFILENAMES chops long
	  filenames
	· New tooltype/option AMINETMODE searches for
	  .readme files to get a file-description (and
	  ignores #?.readme and INDEX files)
	· New tooltype/option SIZEMODE allows of different
	  output-modes
	· New tooltype/option DATESEPARATOR includes
	  a separating line between subsequent dates in
	  the dirfile
	· Fixed pseudo-bug: The docs incorrectly stated that
	  one could use C-placeholders like "\n" in custom-
	  strings - this didn't work. Now it does !
	· Included new options in the program's icon
	· Slight changes to the info-text
[...]

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  209     346  60.4% -lh5- d519 May 13  1998 file_id.diz
[generic]                  706    1233  57.3% -lh5- 1b90 Aug 25  1997 FiDED.info
[generic]                11289   11685  96.6% -lh5- 4a45 Aug 25  1997 FiDED/Author
[generic]                 1113    1576  70.6% -lh5- 12d8 Aug 25  1997 FiDED/Author.info
[generic]                20789   41612  50.0% -lh5- 022b May 13  1998 FiDED/FiDED
[generic]                12899   32478  39.7% -lh5- 2053 May 13  1998 FiDED/FiDED.guide
[generic]                  814    1576  51.6% -lh5- 4771 Aug 25  1997 FiDED/FiDED.guide.info
[generic]                  861    2126  40.5% -lh5- bfd6 Apr  6  1998 FiDED/FiDED.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         8 files   48680   92632  52.6%            Jul 14  1998