Re: Uncompressing Alien File Formats

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From: Allen B
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:49

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In article <6897@news.duke.edu> dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> This evening I was strolling through wuarchive.wustl.edu looking for some
> ModPlayer files.  What puzzled me, though, was the .lzh and .lha extensions
> on the majority of the files.  I suspect that this is an Amiga abbreviation
> for a LZW-type file compression or something else.  I've crossed this path
> with .hqx extensions for files that have been BinHex'd in the Macintosh
> world, but this one had me stumped.  Is there anything in NeXT-ish parlance
> or Unix-speak that will uncompress these by chance.  Just curious.  Thanx.

Opener will do .lzh and .hqx.  I don't know if it will do .lha
yet, but I know the decoder is available on the NeXT.  If
you've got Opener installed, you just double click on the
files and, whamo!, they open as directories in the File
Viewer.  Just like a NeXT is supposed to work, eh? :-) 

Allen B (Sounds a lot like my last posting)

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