What is a "end central directory"?

[Heiko]

Hi Kevin, i'm again with a question

with version 3.04 some of my program users got the IncompleteZip Exception on test the complete zip file.
VCLUnzip.pas, Line 2134
raise EIncompleteZip.Create(LoadStr(IDS_INCOMPLETEZIP));

In 3.06 of VCLZip the following lines at the function GetFileInfo you have deactivated:

{    if  (ecrec.this_disk > 999)
    or (ecrec.start_central_disk > 999)
    or (ecrec.start_central_disk > ecrec.this_disk) then
        recOK := false;
}


Is there a connection with the exception above?
Could you explain it? What is the "end central directory"?

[Kevin]

That was a check for wierd, improper values in the headers for compressed files. That code was written initially as part of VCLZip 2.X but with VCLZip 3.X and Zip64, these are not necessarily valid checks.

This should be fixed in the most current version of VCLZip Pro (3.06)

Kevin