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jeremy@mupwi.demon.co.uk wrote:

> In article <72bvo5$ir$2@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
>   mauei@primrose.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr A J Jones) wrote:
> > In a futile gesture against entropy, Patrick Breuer wrote:
> > > i.am@my.wits.end ("SimpleSimon" ) schrieb:
> >
> > > > I have a fair number of LHA files that were compressed on Amiga's. They
> > > > have long files names in the archives and the PC LHA software that I can
> > > > find chokes on these files.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a PC utility that will expand these files in Windows 98?
> >
> > > Not that I knew - but if there is one, I'd like to know as well!
> >
> > Try the latest versions of Winzip from http://www.winzip.com/
> >
> > It seems to cope with lha, gzip and tar files IIRC.  Oh, and the hideous
> > and evil kludge that is known as "long filenames"...
>
> Winzip needs the dos version of lha available. It is that which IIRC has
> problems with long filenames.
>
> Rgds,
> Jeremy Silver
>
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Hi-
In order to unpack Amiga LHA files, under Win9x, try Quick View Plus. This handles
viewing and unpacking LHA files just fine, including long files names. A
functional but time lmited demo can be downloaded from Jasc's site:

http://www.jasc.com/qvp.html

In a related topic, LZX files can be unpacked using Unlzx from Aminet:

 http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/util/arc/W95unlzx.lha