> So you're scanning 4 different folders with 4 different xml files you get from mame > (1 for each softlist and 1 for the rest) in some sort of batch mode within clrmame > that nobody else has even heard of or what exactly are you doing?
your complaints are ridiculous: the batch option is so unheard of that it's been present in cmpro since years (I used it to handle nointro and tosec dats since its addition); so unheard of that it's been mentioned mentioned for the past 2 years in MESS documentation about softlists ( see e.g. http://mess.redump.net/mess:howto#using_software_lists_with_cmpro or my blog); and so unheard of that 99% of the MESS users use it
not to mention that the batch option has been pointed out to you by me and others in the bannister shoutbox *every* time you came complaining about softlists, but you were probably too busy complaining about softlist, a feature you never even bothered to try (given you seemed to ignore that we used 8chars shortnames like MAME...), to read our suggestions