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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: sir_inferno on December 06, 2003, 08:50:42 PM
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hi guys, an easy thread which will promote lots a replies and flares and bug reports etc.
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Kickstart 39.106
Workbench 40.42
Right :-)
What archiving formats (if any) does amiga support as default. And if it doesn't then, what are my options (free please :-D )
thank u
oh and if you are going to say .lha then please tell me what program to use on a pc (windowz) to compress to .lha. (i need to get a file from pc to amiga)
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WinRAR is the best program I've used on the PC to extract LhA. It's shareware, however.
There's plenty of command-line LhA commands if you want to get your hands dirty. I used to use LhaNT, have a look for that on the web :-)
You can find WinRAR at http://www.rarlab.com (http://www.rarlab.com)
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...Uh, actually just realised WinRAR will only extract LhA.
I'd say for PC to Amiga transfer, use ZIP on the PC and UnZIP (http://www.aminet.net/aminet.cgi?string=.zip+archive+extracter) on the Amiga.
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I use Ultimate ZIP (http://www.ultimatezip.com/) for LHAs and other stuff from windoze - Freeware (although there's an advert when you start it). It was recommended by someone else here, but I cannot remember who :roll:
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Looking through the archives, Vincent, amigau and trgse have all had a good thing to say about it :-D
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ok, thanks a lot, i'll look into that...
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I also recommend UltimateZip. Far better than WinZIP.
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alx wrote:
It was recommended by someone else here, but I cannot remember who :roll:
Bad memory gets us all :-D
Looking through the archives, Vincent, amigau and trgse have all had a good thing to say about it :-D
Yup, when I first found out about it I had a look. After about 10 mins it had replaced WinZip totally :-D
It's a lot easier to use and you don't need any outside exe's to use other formats like lha, arj or arc.
UltimateZip can handle 30 different formats too :-D