TjLaZer wrote:
First things first: PC cannot read Amiga disks, Amiga (of course) can read PC disks!
Only if the pc disk is 720k formated, BTW.
LHA should be copied to your C folder on your Workbench disk or partition since it is a command line driven program.
Download lha.run from aminet. Note: run it in Amiga RAM-disk, then save the correct executable to your C: drawer. Don't use version above 1.38, no gain for plain A500's users.
Note @TJ says the executable, not the lha archive must be in the C: drawer.:-)
In a shell you use the command to unarc the archive.
"Normal" use: Lha -x archivename.lha
Use the command "LHA ?" to see the help instructions on how to use the command. You will then be able to unarchive the LHA file to a formatted floppy disk for use. (on the Amiga of course)
Most recent version of lha don't need to put "?" after the command. Simply type "lha", enter and the help will come.
Alternatively if you have WinRAR you could unarchive the files to a 720k PC formatted disk, then read the disk on your Amiga with CrossDOS but that would be more difficult for a novice user /me thinks!
Don't even think about this! PC's will destroy the Amiga special flags in some depacked archives. And DOS disks will truncate the archive names to 8.3 format. The better solution is
ALWAYS depack the .lha archive in the Amiga.