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Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?

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From: Vaipen
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:26:01 -0600, "Dave S. Matthews" <dm05438@navix.net> wrote
happily singing:

>> > 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
>
>
Its a pain to find utils that can extract many formats. check this out, it may
help:
 http://www4.windows95.com/apps/98/compress.html

I havent found the lzx or havent dl-ed it yet. It is possible to extract Lha and
Lzx, it is just that PC land hasnt catched up with improved arvhiving as I am
told:-)

It's a pain really. We should all just use Zip!



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Subject: Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?
Date: 1998/11/14
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