Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?

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From: Mr A J Jones
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:00

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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"...
--
Adam Jones (mauei@csv.warwick.ac.uk) (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~mauei/)
.oO("I need somme answers"                                            )

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