nfoview by ow50 is not there? where can I get it?

An NFO Viewer written in Java (jnfoviewer) is available at:

http://www.dsnine.co.uk/~gary/projects/nfoviewer/

It has a few issues at the moment which are listed on the web page. But once they are resolved it should provide a cross platform way to view NFO files.

Sorry, I moved it. And it's now written in Python. I updated also the link for the Lucida Console P font. Check back the earlier post.

just to give my 2 cents, here's how i got my setup working.
i should point out that my objective was to incorporate
nfo viewing capabilities to my current text editor (ie. Kate)...
not having a separate application just to look at nfo files

so its pretty simple...

1. download and install the Lucida Console font as mentioned earlier.
2. in Kate, open up the conf (Settings->Configure Kate...), go to Editor->Fonts & Colors and hit the New button.
3. give a name to your new scheme... (maybe "NFO" ? )
4. now you can customize the look and feel of your nfo... bgcolor, fgcolor... etc. just play with it however you want, the only thing important is to make sure to change the font (in the font tab) to our newly installed Lucida Console font.
5. hit the Apply button at the bottom of the screen.
6. now go to the Editor->Filetypes section and hit the New button.
7. in the name section well.. you put a name (maybe "NFO" ? )
8. in the variables section you put kate: scheme NFO; encoding ibm866; (here you should change "NFO" to the name you gave to your scheme on step 3)
9. in the File extensions section you put *.nfo
10. hit OK, restart Kate and open your NFO. VOILA!

i know most people say that you need cp437 encoding to get this working (which
Kate doesn't have) but i found out that the ibm866 is pretty close if not identical
to cp437 when used with the Lucida Console font.

hope that will be helpful to someone out there!

cheers!

Although my first post here will be a serious resurrection, i’d like to note that this thread (page) is still #1 result for most relevant terms on google.

my correction to the above solution: kate does support cp437 now, so instead of changing the font, a simple “kate: encoding cp437;” is sufficient.

whole remaining procedure (shamelessly copied and edited from above):

1. go to the “Editor→Open/Save→Modes and file types” section and hit the [New] button.
2. in the name section well… you put a name (maybe “NFO”? )
3. in the variables section you put “kate: encoding cp437;”
4. in the File extensions section you put “*.nfo”
5. hit [OK], restart Kate and open your NFO. VOILA!

Why not run iconv -f cp437 filename.nfo > fixed-filename.txt and be done with it?

Nominal Animal

because it will work with every new .nfo file you get, without having to fire a conversion program each time.