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[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/".

[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.

[SamuraiCrow]

Once you have AmigaOS booted find LhA.run using Workbench.  (You may have to select Show->All Files from the window menu in Workbench.)  When you find it double-click it and its name should appear in the Execute file box.  Click OK and it should start to unpack itself.  When it has unpacked you should see the icons of the LhA executable and one or more Amigaguide files (each having the .guide extension) and a .readme file from the Workbench window.  Open a window for the device or hardfile you boot from.  Once you see that you can drag the file LhA to the utilities drawer.  At this point LhA should be in the path so you can access it with the shell anytime you need it.  To use it open a shell by selecting "Execute a Command" from the leftmost menu in Workbench.  Type in "newcli" and a shell window will pop up.  To use the shell type the full path of the directory where you stored the .lha file you want to unpack and press enter.  Type "dir #?.lha" and you should be able to see the file that you want to unpack.  To unpack it to the ram disk you type "lha x myfile.lha ram:" where x stands for extract.  If you need to view the .lha file before you unpack it type "lha v myfile.lha" where v stands for view.  Once the file is unpacked to the ram disk you can close the shell window and run the installer script from Workbench from the directory in the ram disk.  When it has finished copying the files to where you want them you can safely delete the directory on the ram disk.

[SamuraiCrow]

If your hardfile has UnArc in it you should be able to use it to uncompress .LhA files easily (as well as .ZIP)

[SamuraiCrow]

@diamond

UnArc is a program that comes with AmigaOS versions 3.5 and newer.  If you have it then you should have no problems unpacking .lha and .zip files under AmigaOS.  If not then you'll still have to download LhA and get it into you're command path manually.