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Originally Posted by TedJ
Ah, that would work. 
I started having a look around yesterday after my previous post and there's an alternative that doesn't require altering the archive's contents, you simply add the metadata to the zip comment field.
https://code.google.com/p/comicbookinfo/ |
Interesting idea but the stated need is faulty. It is easy to add a file or even change a file without unzipping an archive. Sigil, for example, is a epub editor that makes all sorts of changes without ever having the user unzip the container. (epub, like cbz, uses zip as a container). 7zip can already work very well with zip files without unzipping them.
However, that does not mean that the comment field could not be used. It is not clear, though, that all implementations support comments and there would still need to be a defined format for the data. For example info zip can only add one line of comment data at a time and cannot change it once it is there. info unzip has no separate option to deal with comments. They just appear on the screen.