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Title: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: spihunter on October 02, 2008, 03:35:55 PM: Hey Folks,

I've been searching around but havent found any decent way to unpack LHA files on a Windows PC. I've found a command line version of LHA for PC's but I'd like to find something with a gui so I dont have to fiddle and type a bunch of stuff everytime I want to unpack something :-D

Too much to ask?
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: adolescent on October 02, 2008, 03:37:40 PM: WinRAR does LHA.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: cicero790 on October 02, 2008, 03:40:44 PM: IZarc both unpacks and packs lha.

http://www.download.com/IZArc/3000-2250_4-10072925.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10826781
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: darksun9210 on October 02, 2008, 03:41:50 PM: winrar kicks bottom. :-)
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: cicero790 on October 02, 2008, 03:48:07 PM: Bottom it kicks but it does not pack lha only unpack :-)
IZarc goes both ways.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: spihunter on October 02, 2008, 04:11:26 PM: Thanks everyone!

I've never heard of IZarc. I'll have to check that out.

Doesnt Winrar install a bunch of nasty unwanted stuff on your system?.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: cicero790 on October 02, 2008, 04:17:42 PM: I had a situation a while back befor I got my sandisk cf reader. I had to rig vterm and the native windows program hyperterminal for serial transfer. The hyperterminal did not have a queuing function so I found IZARC and packed a bunch of files and made the transfer. Couldn't pack them in ZIP beacse I only had lha support in the Amiga. Thats how I found IZARC.

EDIT:
@spihunter
You answered while I wrote. No I don't think Winrar does anything like that. A distant bell rings that Winace did that at some point. I haven't tested winace in a long time. I always used winrar but IZarc is rather nice so I probably keep it.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: Trev on October 02, 2008, 04:30:28 PM: The latest version of WinZip supports LHA as well; however, WinZip honors the security zone information that Windows attaches to files in a separate stream on NTFS volumes. It can be quite annoying. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260 for more information.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: spirantho on October 02, 2008, 04:33:02 PM: WinRAR is completely safe - been using it for years. Well worth registering (it's not free, but it's not expensive either).
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: gazgod on October 02, 2008, 04:45:45 PM: PeaZip is a great open source alternative:-

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html

Gaz
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: nine3o on October 02, 2008, 06:21:46 PM: WinRAR is great, I too have been using it for years on my laptop, works great for all types of archives.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: Zac67 on October 02, 2008, 08:21:06 PM: WinRAR is AOK - been using it for years as a professional, no security issues whatsoever. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: Colani1200 on October 02, 2008, 09:09:19 PM: Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com).
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: jmbattle on October 02, 2008, 10:10:16 PM: 7Zip - open-source and fantastic.

Cheers,
James
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Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: cecilia on October 03, 2008, 12:20:08 AM: 7-zip (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable) also comes Portable! meaning you can put it on a flash drive. or even use it on your HD. no messing about with the registry. (which I love)

PeaZip is also Portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/peazip_portable)
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: SHADES on October 03, 2008, 12:50:37 AM: 7-zip also is available for OS4 in the download section because someone ported it.

I still havent found any archiver that supports that great compression LZX that was on AMIGA.

Apparently Microsoft bought him oout and now use it as part of their .CAB compression.

It still is one of the best compression utils I have used in terms of compression power appart from paq8 type archivers that can be now found. Mind you, they(paq8) are very slow still.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: kidkoala on October 03, 2008, 12:57:51 AM: i will have to strongly suggest, like colani1200, the best file browser there is; Total Commander (earlier known as Windows Commander).
Has support for all kinds of cool stuff through it's extensive plugins support. www.ghisler.com.

i've used it since the 90's, but paid for it a couple of years ago, well spent money.
Title: Re: Unpacking LHA's on a PC?
Post by: Piru on October 03, 2008, 01:35:13 AM: @SHADES

7-zip (LZMA) beats LZX, too, I believe.

Okay did some real benchmarking. I tried to use the --best or -9 option for each compressor:
Code: [Select]
full_testset.tar 53145600 full_testset.tar.lha 15983773 full_testset.tar.gz 14954357 full_testset.tar.lzx 13938393 full_testset.tar.bz2 13531799 full_testset.tar.lzma 12271986The full_testset.tar includes the data from http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/files/

Another benchmark, the linux kernel source linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2 (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2):
Code: [Select]
linux-2.6.26.5.tar 289556480 linux-2.6.26.5.tar.lha 72452510 linux-2.6.26.5.tar.gz 62547773 linux-2.6.26.5.tar.lzx 55986385 linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2 49450713 linux-2.6.26.5.tar.lzma 40785256

So from this data it'd seem both bzip2 and lzma easily beat LZX.