Unpacking LHA's on a PC?

[Piru]

@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:

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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          12271986
The 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:

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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.