Please post a good public domain .lha decompressor!

[motorollin]

i think this windows one works but i'm not sure.  it's not very good.

Don't unarchive Amiga software on Windows. Extracting the Amiga files on to a Windows filesystem fscks with the file attributes of the files within the archive, which is probably why your copy of IDEfix isn't working properly. Instead, get a proper dearchiver working on the Amiga, copy the .lha file to the Amiga, and unarchive it there.

[motorollin]

This file doesn't run on my Amiga 1200.  (Workbench 3.1, 3.1 ROM)

I have no clue on why it's not running.  I also tried from a shell a few minutes after I wrote this.  lha.run: file is not executable, failed returncode 10

It has lost the executable bit from being on a non-Amiga filesystem. Easy to fix. Type the following into the shell:

protect lha +RWED

then try to run it again.

[motorollin]

No problem, glad it worked

[motorollin]

i think even .lha still archived might as well have this command run on it before you decompress it via the Amiga.

You don't need to do it on the archives themselves. Only the command which decompresses them (lha itself) needs to be executable. The archives themselves don't need any modification before unarchiving them. Oh, and you only need to do it to lha once and then you can just run it.

cd-rom is an old external SCSI sony that i use with my flat 1200* that's going strong.  i'm doing the A4000 CD-ROM job.  should be easy now with right version of IDE-fix

How are you connecting it to your A4000?