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Article #89Re: Amiga LHA files opening on PC?
From: jeremy
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:00
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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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