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SubjectFeature request - External packer interface Reply to this message
Posted byAbsolon
Posted on04/13/04 08:32 AM



Hi,
there is one thing that I really lack in this fantastic, faboulous program :) - an external packing interface.

For instance, you want to pack your files with 7zip or rar or whatever, but since many of the libraries that handle
packing/unpacking, like for instance rar are commercial, it's understandable that it won't be inplemented in a
freeware program, but with an external packing interface, you could have your choise of what format you want to
pack your files in.

Why?
There are so many better packing engines out there then zip, packers the pack up to 30% better then zip.
That's a lot when you have many roms/sets but limited disk space.

With an external packing interface, you could just choose whatever packing program that you prefare with parameters.
The interface would just execute that program that you specify, and report back any output so you could see if
something has gone bad. (Just like ZipMax)

An interface could look like something like this:

External program to unpack: /
External program to pack: /

Please Roman, give it some thought? :)

Regards,
Abs



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.Feature request - External packer interface  Absolon04/13/04 08:32 AM
.*Re: Feature request - External packer interface  Roman04/13/04 08:52 AM