> 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