[SOLVED !] I hate ASCII art.

[smallhagrid]

Hi Folks.

Time to update this lingering quest of mine...with some great news !!

I have always had trouble viewing NFO files with all the extra garbage in them because of my eyes.

I've always wondered if anyone made a utility that will take in the NFO file, clean the extra stuff out of it, and spit it out like a plain old TXT file somehow.

There's been some pretty good suggestions and I've searched and found some stuff - but only things that require a bunch of steps and don't really do the job 100%.

Notepad++ sort of does it with a macro, but rather poorly.

Textpipe is supposed to do it - but nobody will say how...!?

Text Monkey does pretty well (if it stays running all the time).

Many moons ago there was a tool maybe called 'LGEAC' that was pretty good.

There's been browser scripts that cleaned 'em.

There's also Chugger's nfo cleaner, which has a very messy install that does some very questionable things and resists being made stand-alone. (http://chuggersplace.x10host.com/cleaner/cleaner.php)

So=>This kind of junk:

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Once the high ASCII/excess is stripped out - is just:

Winamp Pro 5.621
Nullsoft

(Minus the eye pain for me, of course.)

I've looked and looked for any quick, easy way to get this done by drag & drop or in a single step, maybe even as a portable app.

I wasn't seeking perfection and had no gripes about removing a bit of stuff manually if I wanted to - but trying to clean all that junk out of every NFO file that I may want to read drives me olde eyes batty !!! (And I now just delete DIZ files...)

In a perfect world such a tool would be standalone (rather than needing an install), take in an NFO file...clean out the high ASCII chars - save it out as .TXT, and optionally delete the junky and no longer needed NFO file.

But in this real world, a tool that is quick, easy and just cleans out most of the excess will be enough for this old geezer.

So, being stubborn - I asked some more and was given a very nearly perfect solution after all=>

Standalone program, no installation .. check!
Open nfo or copy/paste in and strip ascii... check!
Save it as a stripped nfo or text file ... check!
Option to delete the original nfo file ... check!

So I am sharing this little gem for others to enjoy if they wish to:

http://ge.tt/9nobzj81/v/0?c

Just read the included information and make the necessary changes to the included registry file if desired.

Most importantly - all credit goes to Jellybelly over at MDL for this fine work !!!

:party: StripAscii....savetext...delete... WAHOO !!!!! :party: