Unpacking LHA's on a PC?

[cecilia]

7-zip 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

[SHADES]

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.

[kidkoala]

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.

[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.