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I downloaded a torrent that contains a bunch of .zip files and a .diz file. I'm guessing it all should get pieced back into 1 bigger zip file. Any suggestions on how to use it?

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.diz? IIRC, that's just a text file. When in doubt, try notepad. – Jeff Mercado Jan 10 '11 at 22:41
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A .diz file is nothing more then a text description of what was included in the archive.

Right-click, open with wordpad/notepad.

For a bunch of zipfiles... get winzip/winrar/7-zip installed... Open the directory in question.. highlight all the zips files, right-click, extract.

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.diz is a scene convention for archive/package descriptions.

They are just plain text, and contain info about the package they're contained in.

.nfo is now more much more common, and is used for the same purpose.

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.DIZ (sometimes also .NFO) files are not really needed for the .ZIP files anyway, they normally contain some plaintext information about whatever you downloaded. Open them with a text editor like Notepad.

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Notepad is a text editor, not a word processor. – paradroid Jan 10 '11 at 22:46
Haha, yeah. I was gonna suggest something like Word first and then forgot to change that. – slhck Jan 11 '11 at 9:55
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