I have noticed that most files resulting from a compression / archive process do not have a list of the files contained at the beginning of the resulting file, but rather at the end of it. For example, ZIP files contains partial headers for each file, and at the end they have a Central Directory in where the names of all the files are stored. A similar thing occurred with TAR files.
Is there any compression / archive method that puts a summary of the files contained within the resulting file at the very beginning of it?
