> > 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.