STAT, v1.0 by J.Flynn, copyright 1995 - Freeware - 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 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. One carriage return is still necessary to terminate the program though. 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 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. 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]] 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 for this program and suggested using a single page screen format. E-mail concerning bugs or suggestions for other data you would like to see is welcome and should be sent to Jim Flynn at 72713,3334 on CompuServe.