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Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?

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From: Matthew Haigh
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 00:00
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In article <MY512.2556$Gx.1078976@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com>,
SimpleSimon <i.am@my.wits.end> writes
>Hi!
>
>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?

Somewhat long-winded, but you can run UAE and un-LHA these under
emulation into a directory on the PC (setup UAE to run using the PC
filesystem rather than a hardfile). Works for me:-)

Matt
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Subject: Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?
Date: 1998/11/08
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