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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Desolator on May 04, 2003, 11:25:23 AM

Title: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: Desolator on May 04, 2003, 11:25:23 AM

Is there a way to limit the size of Lha compressed files? I mean, lets say I got a file on 2 Mb's and I want it to compress into several 700kb files, is there a syntax for doing this in Lha or should I use another program?

As for my second question, has somebody converted the OS3.9 icons into PNG or similar so they could be used in KDE on a Linux machine?

Title: Re: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: Desmon on May 04, 2003, 12:55:56 PM

@Desolator

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Is there a way to limit the size of Lha compressed files? I mean, lets say I got a file on 2 Mb's and I want it to compress into several 700kb files, is there a syntax for doing this in Lha or should I use another program?

No. Lha can't make multi volume archives. This was one of the things promised in later version, but never eventuated.

I'm reliably informed that there is ONE version of ZIP for the Amiga that's multi-volume capable, but I've never seen it myself.

Sorry, don't know anything about the icon question.

Title: Re: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: amigau on May 04, 2003, 05:10:25 PM

pretty sure UltimateZip on the PC (yes, boo hiss) can support multi-volume archives, and, it supports LHA files, too.  UltimateZip is freeware (http://www.ultimatezip.com) but PC only, unfortunately, but, if you can get the files to a PC and then make multi-zip archives, you could then download those to an Amiga elsewhere. .. .

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

Title: Re: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: Vincent on May 04, 2003, 06:16:51 PM

In PPaint, I remember getting an Arexx script that allows you to make icons with PPaint.  You created both images.  Normal above and selected directly in line below.  You picked up both images as one brush and saved it as an icon.  You could possibly load an icon in the same way.

I can't remember where I got it, but it could be one of these files on Aminet search result (http://us.aminet.net/aminet.cgi?string=ppaint+icon)

Title: Re: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: hagar on May 04, 2003, 07:37:28 PM

I found some application that can split files:

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#amiga

http://ringlord.com/products/split/

Then you can split the archive into several 700kb archives.

With the last utility you should be able to reassembly the files with join (AmigaDOS) or copy ([PC|MS|DR]-DOS).

Title: Re: Lha questions and Icon question
Post by: Desolator on May 06, 2003, 09:32:05 AM

Thanks for the answers. :)

I did find a program called Chopper that cut up files into smaller chunks (in a PC enviroment) and then joins them on the Amiga.  Works great!