download aninet

[diamond]

Im trying to download a paint program from aminet ...but it doesn't have a way to download ... BTW how do you download is aminet ... I was trying to Dnld TVPaint and it also has Perfect Paint (amiga) with it ...

 :inquisitive:

[diamond]

I was trying to download something from a 'search file' ...lol
NeverMind.

[blobrana]

 :-)



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"strength and humour"

[diamond]

@ Blobrana:

 When I try to download into A-WEB... it messages me "unreconizable file" ...I guess it has to dnld into XP?
...Diamond

[lurkist]

Sounds like your MIME prefs aren't set up right.  For now, in Aweb click on the item with the right mouse button and select "Download Link", choose a place on your hard drive and away you go.
Cheers

[whabang]

I downloaded Aminet a while back. I deleted it again, because I needed the disc space.

[blobrana]

@diamond

yeah, you can use the PC side to download it.

But what wver you do -  dont open the .lha file up with  XP...just double click to extract it with the amiga OS.

[SamuraiCrow]

blobrana wrote:
@diamond

yeah, you can use the PC side to download it.

But what wver you do -  dont open the .lha file up with  XP...just double click to extract it with the amiga OS.

Assuming you have AmigaOS version 3.5 or better you can double-click files to decompress.

If you download LHAnt.exe from Aminet you can unpack your lha files on the PC if you like... from the command line... but you can download LhA and run it on AmigaOS 2+ and then copy LhA to C: or utilities and then you can unpack lha files on the Amiga.  The command line format for either LhAnt or LhA is "lha x filename.lha destination:path/".

[Vincent]

Using LHA on the PC can be a bad idea at times.

LHA.exe is dos only and truncates all the filenames to 8.3.

Using Windows unarchivers can be problemsome at times aswell.

--edit--

Sorry, didn't realise the nt part there ;-)

LHAnt.exe is possibly fine, but almost everytime I've unlha'd something on the pc side there has been problems (using all manner of different unarchivers).

[diamond]

@Crow ..and Vincent

I have XP ...and AF6

i can't seem to downld much into af6 via A_WEB?..... so Im downloading into XP ...and when i use winrar to extract into my emulation folder i have trouble.... i know its something I'm doing...?

[diamond]

@Blobrana:
 hi ... still not familiar with it all ... so i have tried both way ...
ps: i can't get wb96 to 'save 'into af6 ... i have to manually put it into the file each time i open af6 ...and some icons appear? ...is that wb96?

[shIva]

check your mime settings, sounds like there´s a problem with these. just add lha, lzx, zip and whatever and it should work.

@whabang : if you need a copy of the aminet again, i have got some on my tape libraries :-D

[diamond]

@shlva:

what are mime sttings?

[SamuraiCrow]

Mime settings are the file type recognition part of a web browser.  Archive formats like .lha .zip .lzh and so on should be just saved to to the hard disk unconverted.

I would recommend you not use WinRAR to try to unpack the Amiga archives.  Just download LhA and run it from the shell in AmigaForever and it will unpack itself.  Then you can unpack other .lha files using "lha x filename.lha drive:path/" where filename is the lha file you want to unpack and drive:path/ is the place you want to decompress the files to.

[blobrana]

@diamond
Yeah, the first bit you do is right...

But dont use winrar!
(dont open the .lha file up with XP!)

You have to boot up af6 then extract the files from the amiga OS.
Your af6 perhaps has OS3.1 -  in which case, my mistake for saying to double click on file.
You can use an unarchiver from Aminet, like ArcExtract1_6.lha...
(er, once you`ve extracted it)