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- At 12:08 PM 3/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
- >At 05:53 AM 3/22/96 -0800, Jim Phillips wrote this:
- >[In response to how to deal with LHA files on PCs and my response with
- LHANT...]
- >>The PC that I have is used strictly for Photoshop, and other stuff that
- >>won't run on my ALPHA. It's running WINDOWS 3.1 so I guess I won't be able
- >>to sample this stuff. Is that right?
- >
- >You COULD use the DOS version (LHA V2.13 or 2.55 on any good DOS ftp site)
- >or WinZip (which would use the LHA externally) however do know that it may
- >have severe problems dealing with some archives with long file names. You
- >could FORCE LHA to extract files but it may end up over-writing files
- >because, in DOS's eyes, the file is the same as one extracted previously.
- >You could probably just try and extract files that are the objects but it
- >may be a hit and miss thing. On the Amiga, file extensions don't have to be
- >specified. Generally, objects may have an ".lwob" extension, at least with
- >the older archives.
- >
- >You owe it to yourself to step up and install Win95 to get longer file
- >names. DOS and 8.3 character filenames should have been eliminated 15+
- >years ago (though we have long file names in Win95 and WinNT, they both
- >STILL have a 3 character extension fetish). Then you can run PhotoShop
- >3.0.5 and the upcoming 32 bit PS plugins. :)
- >
- >Dan
- >Who semi-ranted a bit. It pains me to see how far behind the PC has placed
- >the computing industry in some respects...
- >--
- >Daniel J. McCoy - djmccoy@pacificnet.net or dan@acti.com
- >http//www.pacificnet.net/~djmccoy
- >
- >
- Okay, I went to my search engine and wound up with a copy of lha_e.exe which
- seems to almost work. I downloaded viper.lha and basktbal.lzh from the
- Tomahawk site. I put lha_e.exe in my winzip directory and told winzip to
- use it for those file extensions. Winzip will open the archives now but
- will only extract the first file in the archive. I highlight all files in
- the archive, but it only extracts one. The files don't have the same names,
- so its not overwriting the first extracted file with the second. Anybody
- know what I'm doing wrong, or better yet, can someone attach me an LHA.EXE
- file that works on a PC running Windows 3.1? Thanks in advance.
- Jim Phillips
- phillips@ro.com
- LW/DEC ALPHA 21164-300/PVR
- "Experience is a hard teacher, It gives the test first,
- and the lesson later..."
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