CompuServe Thread

If I understand your question correctly, I think you need to unpack the files… do they all say FileName.LHA or .LZH??? If so, these files are "archived", "compressed" or "packed" files. Each .LHA file contains several different related files and their icons, etc. needed to run the program that you are downloading. To unpack this file you need a program called "LHA138". I think it is available in the Amiga Users Group library. Go to the library 14 (Archivers/Crunchers) and download a program called "LHA138.RUN". When you run the program in the shell you must make sure that the program is in the same directory as the the .LHA file you want to unpack. (The program (LHA138) is not compressed and is ready to work right after you download it.) Type in the command LHA e FILE NAME and you should see the files start "decompressing" before your eyes. THEN you can use them. Hope this helps, Hal Waterhouse Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? = Robert Heinlein <\\\^AP 1.80^///>

if you have os2.1 plus that supports dosdrivers,and have lha you can get the lha dosdriver which allows you to extract lha files from harddisk thru workbench and not fully decompressing it to harddrive/memory try looking in amiga user keyword archives

Alan, <How do I load the various programs after I download them. Do I need to use the shell? I am able to copy them from thr ram to a disk, but I can't seem to access the files.> Most files online are compressed with a program to make them smaller and easier to up/down/load. The last three letters after the '.' tell us which compressor was used. If it's .lha or lzh you can uncompress them with LHA, which can be found in a self-extracting archive in the AmigaUsers Archiver/Crunchers library as LHA138.run. Copy it to ram: cd to ram: type: lha138.run and it will unpack itself. Copy the executabely (LHA) to your c: directory. Any time you want to find out how to archive or unarchive a file you can type: lha on a cli/shell line and it will display all the commands and the templates for using them. To simply unpack an .lha file go to where the file is and type: lha x filename hit return and the file will unpack. There are other extensions also like .txt, a text file, can be read as is, .zoo Zoo, .zip, Zip, etc.. Hope this helps! Asha Another day, another million colors