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#Those Darn LZH's

    18-Feb-92 21:17:06
Sb: #Those Darn LZH's
Fm: Tom Polous 71131,100
To: ALL
hello And HELP!!! As a well seasoned computer user to an Atari ST to an IBM, as well as a C-64, Atari 800 etc etc…I never had so many problems dearchiving software as much as I'm having with the Amiga. I am well versed in Lharc for the IBM and Atari (wrote my own source in C on both) as well as zip,arc and sit for mac. but my real problem is d/l software from CIS and other bbs's. You see with the Atari & IBM I download a file and its there. I can see it. I know it exsists and takes up space. Unfortunely I have been experimenting with the Amiga and after many hours of reading manuals (does anyone still do that these days? I stopped in 1970) I found that I must load the cli file. Fine. So I did. There was the file. Now all I needed was that LZH program. So I TRY to find a unlzhed lzh file. Should I find one?-NOT!! I download what I think is a non-compressed unlzher (lzh111.lha) and so I loaded cli and went to load the file. Being experenced in Unix, CP/M I TRY to load that nasty little lzher..'object file no module'-or something like that. Well what should I do? I've got a bunch of files (mostly a collection of graphics and demos to show off the Amiga) but the nasty little bugger doesn't care if it is a module or what. What ddoes an Amiga user do? To make a long story short…..I need to unlzh a file. I need a program that is an exacutable..not already lzhed. I would download a lzher but they are all compressed. Lately my Amiga has been covered with dust and buried under papers since it is too unconmfusing to uuse. The only thing I use it for is playing THE THREE STOOGES. HELP!