#LZH help
6 messages in this thread
It's been a while since I've cruised extensively through CIS (tends to get
awfully expensive). Anyway, I've downloaded a couple of .LZH files, and I
can't remember how to decrunch them? I've searched for an LZH decruncher–ran
across LZ.LZH. How do I decrunch it? I tried runing and executing an .lzh
file, but that didn't work.
Appreciate any help that you can give me (I wish I could have come up with a
more complicated question!)
Ciao
Pat
Pat,
Download LHA138.RUN from library 16. It's a self-extracting archive.
Place it in ram, CD to RAM: and then, at the CLI enter: LHA138.RUN
Now, enter: COPY LHA C: this puts LHA in your C: directory.
If you have a downloaded .LZH/.LHA file on your WORK: partition in a
directory named TEMP, you'd unpack it as follows:
CD WORK:TEMP
LHA -x x <filename.ext>
Michael–so the answer is that I can use lha to unlzh an lzh file? I had just
downloaded the lha138.run file, since the lha file I had was a tad dated (got
an error message when I used it). Why are different extensions used, if the
same decruncher can be used?
The same thing happened to me… you need to run lha138.run by itself, and
allow it to unpack… then use LHA from that….
Patricia,
LHA138.run once decompressed produces a file named LHA, this is the
command. Put it in your C: directory. It handles archives with either .LZH
or LHA extensions. Why different extensions? To differentiate the two
compression algorhythms used.
.LHA is compressed to a smaller size and uses the LHA V2.x compression
(-lh5-)
Christopher
>>so the answer is that I can use lha to unlzh an lzh file?<<
Yes, as long as you are using the version of LHA contained in the
LHA138.RUN archive.
>>Why are different extensions used, if the same decruncher can
be used?<<
Better to ask, why should you have two programs on your hard drive when
one will do the job of two?! <g> LHA138.RUN was designed to handle both
algorythms. Just as most word processors will handle more than one format
of text.