CompuServe Messages

Rich, It can be done with a single drive, but is harder. First of all, does your Workbench have enough room for another program on it? To find out, from a CLI or shell, type: INFO DF0: The Amiga will tell you how much space is used and how much is free there. You will need about 58000 bytes for the LHA program, but your command will give you the empty space in blocks, so you'd need about 120 blocks free. If you have that much we can proceed: COPY the LHA file back to RAM: Then, type these commands: CD RAM: (makes RAM: your current directory.) LHA138.RUN (unpacks the program) DIR (tells you what programs were unpacked from the above file.) COPY LHA DF0:C (copies the working part to your Workbench command directory.) If you don't have enough room on the Workbench to put it there you need to make a copy of your Workbench before starting the above procedure, making sure its name is WorkBench or WB – not "copy of Workbench." Then, you can delete some things that you don't really need while unpacking files. The fonts are good candidates for deletion here: DELETE DF0:FONTS/#? ALL but be SURE you are working with a COPY of your Workbench – not your master! Then, label this Workbench as one for archiving or de-archiving, and boot with it when you want to unpack or pack things. And copy LHA to it, as above. After this, if you boot with the Archiving Workbench, LHA will be a part of your command set, and you can use it to unpack by copying the archive to RAM:, and then: MAKEDIR RAM:FILENAME (makes a directory in which to store your new program) CD RAM:FILENAME (make the new directory your current one) LHA x RAM:FILENAME.LHA (unpacks the program into the directory you made.) DIR (to see what files are available in your new directory) Then, use any editor to read any text files, README files, xxx.DOC files, etc. Be sure to copy your new program to a disk before rebooting your machine. —Betty