de-compression
04-Feb-91 00:16:48
Sb: #14103-de-compression
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: JAMES POOLE 72700,3041
James,
If you have LHARC in your c: directory of your Workbench, it becomes
another command you can use as easily as you use RUN or DIR, so I always
recommend that people put it there. The file you want is in Library 5 of
AmigaUser, and it is named LHARC.EXE. It is possible to download that
particular file straight to the c: directory where you want it. When CIS
asks for the
"Name for your computer", say DF0:C/LHARC
And it will go straight into the c: directory on the Workbench you have in
df0:
You don't RUN LHARC, you use it to unpack programs whose names end with
LZH. Suppose you have LHARC in your c: directory, and you have a file you
downloaded called ABC.LZH on a disk in drive 1. You would do this:
MAKEDIR DF1:ABC
CD DF1:ABC
LHARC -m -x x DF1:ABC.LZH
COPY DF0:EMPTY.INFO DF1:ABC.INFO
The first line makes a directory for your new files to live in.
The second line makes that the current directory, because LHARC is going to
put things in the current directory, wherever it might be.
The third line tells LHARC to unpack the archive, with the -m telling it to
make new directories if they are needed, the -x says to keep the directory
structure, and the x says to unpack the file.
The fourth line makes a drawer icon for your new program.
If you have more questions, please feel free to ask.
Betty