Pulling my hair out over LHA!!!

[amigan24]

Hello all!

I have been trying to get these LHA /ZIP files to work for the last 3 HOURS! I keep getting "crc error" messages for both. What the H*LL is the problem here? I updated to LHA22 and reeeealy want my miggy to look beautiful like she deserves to be!

It goes like this:

I'll get the crc message so I'll erase the disc and try again...only to find out that it's a different file every time!

Am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance!  :madashell:

[adolescent]

What are your system specs?  Do the LHA files test okay?

[Amiduffer]

Hi Amigan24. Yes, LHA does get a little frustrating sometimes. :-D

Be a little more specific. What program are you trying to unpack, where are you trying to unpack it to? Are you using a filemanager like DirOpus or Diskmaster or running LHA from CLI? Are you trying to do something special? If you can, type the exact commands you are using. Let's go from there.

[Oliver]

Have you manipulated these archives on another computer platform (Windows/Mac/?) as well, prior to using in miggy land?

[Brian]

CRC errors usually indicate a corrupted file... might be a bad transferr from where you got the file? Try download/transferr the LHA/ZIP file(s) again.

[ChaosLord]

Lha v2.2 is hopelessly buggy and should never be used.  Delete that. :destroy:

You could do what I do:
Use Lha v1.x.  Those versions are reliable. :love:


Or you could be brave and try the newest version
which is Lha v2.12.  <-- I have not tested this version and make no claims about it.

[orange]

is the rest of your system OK? I'd check RAM, and HDD that maxtransfer thingy.. etc.
also do a -t(est)
BTW, if -lha7- is used then you could try picozip on windoze..
IIRC, lzx could also unpack lha, or not?

[amigan24]

Ok...

My system is an Amiga 1200 2mb chip (duh) 4mb fast os 3.1 with matching kickstart.

I am also using an Amiga 600 with the same.

I usually just copy the direct lha file to a floppy and unpack it on the amigas using lha /lhx (or if it's a zip I use unzip). I usually write the command in the shell like this:

lha x pc0:blah helpthispoorsoul/

I don't use anything other than that. I tried several versions of lha and I keep getting the error messages.

Am I missing something here? How do I do a system check? Apologies for the noob questions but as I said...I'd like the miggy to strut her stuff and show my buddies that she's still got it.

Hell! I'd even take it to dinner if it were socially acceptable! :lol:

[Piru]

Remove SYS:WBStartup/CrossDOS if you have it, it's only useful when you want to translate between msdos and amiga linefeeds. It corrupts regular data files (such as archives).

[amigan24]

hey there!

all I have in the startup is rexxmaster

 :-?

[Amiduffer]

Well, sounds like the file itself is bad.

Download it again on a different disk, transfer it to Ram: and unpack it from there. I wouldn't trust unpacking a file from a PC floppy.

[Tomas]

It could be that media you host these lha files on are corrupt. All compressed formats are very sensitive to even small corruption, 1bit wrong and you will get crc errors.. This is also the case with pc formats like zip, rar, ace and so on..

[orange]

don't know about others but .rar has an option for adding redundant data so that it can repair archive. it can be veeeery useful, esp when using USB flash disks, floppys etc..