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Help for a Mac user

    15-Aug-93 07:50:27
Fm: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
To: Steven Mizrach 73750,462
Steven: It's really easy to dearchive .LHA files on a Mac. First you find a local Amiga dealer, then you buy an Amiga from him, and then download LHA for the Amiga! 🙂 Seriously now, I do believe there is a Mac program to dearchive LHA files, perhaps a browse thru one of the Mac forums would turn up the file (or better yet, the Mac FileFinder). I'm assuming that the .LHA files that you have originated on an Amiga? If so, I'd stay away from any PC LHA dearcers, as MSDOS (or MessyDOS as some folks call it) has that stupid 8.3 file name restriction that neither Amigas, nor Macs (nor most other intellegent OSes) have. I've never tried to unarc a file that does have a long name onto a PC to see what happens, either it'll truncate the filename, or worse yet it could crash the machine! // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale