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Subjectzipmax "ERROR" w/ PKZip 2.04g Reply to this message
Posted bykrick
Posted on03/15/04 11:11 PM



When I use PKZip 2.04g with zipmax and run it against my whole rom archive collection (4,814 zip archives), 27 of them fail in Zipmax with "ERROR" and no other explanation.

I can't see any reason why these 27 archives should be any different. I can run any of the other external compressors with no problem at all. I know that PKZip probably doesn't give a better compression rate than 7zip but at this point, I'm just curious why this is happening.

If you want to test this out yourself, here's links to pkzip 2.04g and one of the archives that fail in Zipmax...

http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/hunchbkg.zip
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/PKZIP.EXE

...
Krick




SubjectRe: zipmax "ERROR" w/ PKZip 2.04g new Reply to this message
Posted byRoman
Posted on03/16/04 02:01 AM



> When I use PKZip 2.04g with zipmax and run it against my whole rom archive
> collection (4,814 zip archives), 27 of them fail in Zipmax with "ERROR" and no
> other explanation.
>
> I can't see any reason why these 27 archives should be any different. I can run
> any of the other external compressors with no problem at all. I know that PKZip
> probably doesn't give a better compression rate than 7zip but at this point, I'm
> just curious why this is happening.
>
> If you want to test this out yourself, here's links to pkzip 2.04g and one of
> the archives that fail in Zipmax...
>
> http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/hunchbkg.zip
> http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/PKZIP.EXE
>
> ...
> Krick
>


The files work fine here with my external compressors. Wasn't PKZip 2.04g a dos application? Running it on a WinNT based system (XP, 2k) could cause problems. Well...If Pkzip causes problems, it's pkzip's fault ;)


Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro


SubjectRe: zipmax "ERROR" w/ PKZip 2.04g new Reply to this message
Posted bykrick
Posted on03/16/04 12:32 PM



> > When I use PKZip 2.04g with zipmax and run it against my whole rom archive
> > collection (4,814 zip archives), 27 of them fail in Zipmax with "ERROR" and no
> > other explanation.
> >
> > I can't see any reason why these 27 archives should be any different. I can
> run
> > any of the other external compressors with no problem at all. I know that
> PKZip
> > probably doesn't give a better compression rate than 7zip but at this point,
> I'm
> > just curious why this is happening.
> >
> > If you want to test this out yourself, here's links to pkzip 2.04g and one of
> > the archives that fail in Zipmax...
> >
> > http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/hunchbkg.zip
> > http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/mame/PKZIP.EXE
> >
>
>
> The files work fine here with my external compressors. Wasn't PKZip 2.04g a dos
> application? Running it on a WinNT based system (XP, 2k) could cause problems.
> Well...If Pkzip causes problems, it's pkzip's fault ;)
>
>

Could it be a problem with the command line syntax for PKZip? None of the files in the archive above have extensions.

Here's the command line syntax from your sample ini file...

packer-exe-7 = pkzip.exe
packer-cmd-7 = -a -ex -rp -whs %1 %2.*

Notice the "%2.*"
I don't think that will match files with no '.' in them.


SubjectRe: zipmax "ERROR" w/ PKZip 2.04g new Reply to this message
Posted byRoman
Posted on03/16/04 02:14 PM



> Notice the "%2.*"
> I don't think that will match files with no '.' in them.

Erm...last time I used pkzip is ages ago. In fact, I don't remember ;) IIRC Ben Jos once sent me a config file for about 255 external packers....maybe I find that one again...

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro


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