#Amiga file help
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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.
Dominic,
Sounds like the file in question was uuencoded. That is, the .LHA was
uuencoded so that it could be transfered via Internet. You can try uunencoding
it, then decompressing the .LHA that will result.
Trent
"Tracers work both ways"
Be careful of viruses from the net, also, sometimes people, when using
different archivers will accidentally name the extension as a different archive
format, it is also possible that the file was uploaded as ASCII instead of
Binary which can do some strange things.
On your CLI type "LHA" and look at the commands available, the "T" command
will test the archive integrity and let you know what the problem is. Hope this
helps.
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