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#Amiga file help

    21-Apr-95 20:45:00
Sb: #Amiga file help
Fm: Dominic Pica 70744,3553
To: All, Sysop (X)
Can anyone figure this out: I downloaded a file off of the internet. I has an LHA extention, but everytime I go to decompress it, it says that there are no files in the archive. If I look at it with a HEX editor, in the first lines of the ASCII section it says something to the effect of: "This file is in BINARY format, created by _( there's a name here )_ at 5-JAN-1995 23:54:03.501018 bytes. Checksum = 0C10 XCRC = A1D1 CRC16 = 3031." And then goes on to state the name of one of the file in the archive. Like a normal LHA compressed file, but the "this file is in . . ." part is not normal. Neither is the fact that the charcters in the file are standard ASCII ( A-Z, 1..100, etc ) unlike other archives where every charcter (,t,M,>,-,n,y,},,,, etc ) are used. And note that it says that the size is 501018 bytes. But the _actual_ file is 833,723 bytes. Has this file been converted from a regular compressed LHA file to something else? Are the contents of the archive gone forever? Can anybody figure this out? I need help. Any would be appreciated greatly. Thanks.