Can anyone recommend an *.nfo viewer?

[LarryJoe]

Is there already a program in Windows that can read this type of document and if not, can you recommend a viewer?

Thanks,

LJ

 

[lumpyhed2]

notepad! just drag it into a notepad window and view it from there..

 

[LarryJoe]

Cool thanks.

 

[GT1999]

Warez?

Just rename all of the files to *.*doc at the end.

 

[Xe0n]

i like nfodiz, you can get it from the files section of www.isonews.com

 

[iamthebear]

right mouse click > send to> notepad

 

notepad or wordpad.
OR
you can be fancy with office 2000

 

[blurredvision]

I recommend not to get nfodiz. It takes over and sets the association of all .txt files to it, and then you have all those damned little yellow post-it icons all over the place.

Of course, you can just change the associations, but who wants to do that?

 

[Raincity]

Diz nfo 2000 never took over my txt file assocation just the nfo files turning them into little pirate smilely faces.

Rain

 

[beat mania]

type <file> | more

 

[Budman]

Use Notepad &amp; if you want those pretty graphics to show up nice use the TERMINAL font.

 

[Floyd]

As iamthebear said, create a shortcut to notepad in your SendTo folder. This is usually one of the first things I do to a new Windows installation...use it for all sorts of things. Viewing and editing autoexec.bat &amp; config.sys, and anything else that is plain text but isn't associated with an application (*.inf, read.me files...the possibilities are endless). I use it so often that I named the shortcut &quot;!Notepad&quot; so it is sorted to the top of the list.

Changing the file association is another option, but much more limited than adding Notepad to the SendTo menu. It's hard to imagine installing a third-party utility just to view *.nfo files considering they're only text.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[ROcHE]

Edit.com

 

[XeonTux]

Alot of those files use the ASCII graphics characters and expect fixed-spaced font, which most windows viewers won't show correctly. I always just did a &quot;more < filename.nfo&quot; from the command line...no special proggies req'd

 

[Budman]

XeonTux,

Set your font to TERMINAL and all those ASCII graphics characters will look just as they are supposed to.

 

[SonicFlux]

NFODIZ is an excellent little program, and it's one of the first things I install on a fresh OS.

 

[SendTrash]

In Windows 2000, Open With > Notepad...

 

[weezer]

Elitepad, you´ll find it at Isonews.

 

[NicColt]

Just rename the file with a .txt extention. It's basically a text file.