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STAT, v4.80 by J.Flynn, copyright 1995,6 - Freeware -
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STAT is a program used to inspect the general nature of a wad
either before or after playing it, or while creating it. The default
operation shows a screen for each level in the wad that contains some
general statistics on how many monsters and how much health and ammo
the level contains. It also shows the extent and average lighting of
the level and contains some other miscellaneous stats, including the 
number of starts of each kind available. None of the data on the
default screen really involves cheating to see. 

When the /FULL switch (or just /f) is used more data is output giving
locations for all the weapons, armor, items, secrets and keys and probably
should not be done unless you are stuck. You may find this extra data useful
to track down those impossible to get items and unreachable secrets that
sometimes occur. The sector numbers shown refer to the ordinal position
of the sector within the wad file and should agree with nearly all
editors sector number displays. In DEU, enter sector mode, and use
the J command of the Search menu to locate each sector desired. When
the /full switch is used with a level with lots of secrets or items
the output of the utility should be redirected to a file. 

When viewing an episode's default screens it may be useful to specify
/p as that will cause the program to pause after each levels one page
summary data is output (Hit Prt-Scrn for hardcopy). It will probably be
more useful to save it in a file thru redirection of output and view it
with an editor or print it, especially when /F is specified. An
example of using STAT to save a full report to MYSTATS would be:

STAT /f wadname.wad > MYSTATS

Multiplayer mode only things are not counted in the statistics shown 
unless you use the /Multi switch on the command line. The line
showing the level name also reports the mode for the data.

The version and syntax of STAT may be seen by running it without 
any parameters at any time. Here's the syntax though:

STAT [/F[ull]] [/P[ause]] [/M[ulti]] wad1[.wad] [>outfile]

The parts inside square brackets may be left out. You should replace
wad1 with the name of the wad you want to analyze, and outfile, if
you use it, with the name of the text file you want to store the data
in. Usually "STAT wadname" is all you need to type.

Thanks to Scott Harper who provided useful feedback during this
program's conception and suggested a single page screen format. Thanks also
to Peter Zahner for testing this program, and making several critical
suggestions for improving it. Thanks to Bob Evans and Lisa Moore for
catching some anomalies.

E-mail concerning bugs or suggestions for other data you would like
to see is welcome and should be sent to Jim Flynn at jflynn@pacbell.net.




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