Compressed files

[sir_inferno]

hi guys, an easy thread which will promote lots a replies and flares and bug reports etc.


Details:

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)

[that_punk_guy]

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

[that_punk_guy]

...Uh, actually just realised WinRAR will only extract LhA.

I'd say for PC to Amiga transfer, use ZIP on the PC and UnZIP on the Amiga.

[alx]

I use Ultimate ZIP 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

[sir_inferno]

ok, thanks a lot, i'll look into that...

[Matt_H]

I also recommend UltimateZip. Far better than WinZIP.

[Vincent]

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