NfoDiz is a simple text editor aimed to view ASCII files, in particular of types NFO and DIZ. Files of these types are used to provide some additional information to software installation files and archives in Internet. In this review we will see if it was worth designing special program for such a simple task.

The main window of the NfoDiz looks like a standard text editor:

There are the following typical functions implemented in the program: File Open / Save / Print, Cut / Copy / Paste / Find / Undo, set background and text colors and zoom in/out. Except zoom feature, all these functions are available in the built-in Microsoft text editor Notepad that has additional valuable functions like Replace.

As a distinctive feature of the program the developer declares the ability to open NFO and DIZ files and view text files (including ASCII art) in the old-fashioned DOS-like way.

Well, this is how NfoDiz has opened usual NFO file with ASCII art:

NfoDiz appears to fail showing us ASCII art in a proper way. When we open Font Dialog, we see that the default font is Lucida Console ANSI, meaning everything should be displayed correct:

After "playing" with font types and applying again the same Lucida Console ANSI font to the text, finally we get the proper result:

Applying Courier New font also gives the same result.

Being simple text files, NFO and DIZ can be also easily opened with the Microsoft Notepad. The only important thing to remember is to select option All files instead of Text files (*.txt) to view all files on disks. This is how the same file looks in the Notepad:

As we see, it works absolutely correct from the beginning.

Concluding, NfoDiz is a very simple text editor containing only basic functions. Its functionality reminds me text editor that is to be developed in one of the first Borland Builder tutorials on C++. As I have demonstrated, the Notepad can successfully perform the same functions and provide even more functionality without bugs of NfoDiz. Therefore it seems to me that there is no sense to install additional software that only duplicates (and not quite successfully) functions of built-in programs, even when it is free of charge. Probably, it might get useful if the developer adds more advanced functions to view and edit any files in binary, octal and hexadecimal modes in next versions of the program.

NfoDiz keywords: text, nfo, diz, txt, nfodiz, brigada