I'm not really familiar with the internal file-format of the
zip-files - but would it be possible to add some kind of a
flag/marker/etc. at the beginning/end of each zip-file that
has been optimized by zipmax.

The purpose of it should be, that zipmax can recognize an
archive which has already been repacked, without having it
un- & repacked once again...

Thanx
Oli

The only way to add flags is by using the extra or comment fields in zipfiles. The problem: Zipmax removes them because usually they only contain obsolete data and make the zip bigger.

Zipmax marks each and any file with +a (and current date/time iirc) after it was performed. So set your fileflags to -a before zipmaxing and you easily see which were run through zipmax.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

Why not give an option to use MAMEZIP? Mamezip is a java script i think that makes sure all zips have same crc as everyone else, then u can share on bittorrent or kazaa, or any other p2p program and only download the changed roms. Was reading about it on Mamereactor.com

> Why not give an option to use MAMEZIP? Mamezip is a java script i think that
> makes sure all zips have same crc as everyone else, then u can share on
> bittorrent or kazaa, or any other p2p program and only download the changed
> roms. Was reading about it on Mamereactor.com
>

Because he wants to use the zipmax features like multiplexing the files to get smaller files.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

no, i understand his request, i was just asking for a request for clrmame to integrate mamezip somehow. but i can run it seperately, not a big deal