| From: | Peter Hutchison |
| Date: | 15 May 2000 at 09:46:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Windows unpacker? |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darryn 'DMan' Lowe [mailto:dazza@netsource.co.nz]
> Sent: 15 May 2000 05:31
> To: amigaOS3_5@egroups.com
> Subject: [amigaOS3_5] Re: Windows unpacker?
>
>
> Hello Shinda
>
> On 15-May-00, you wrote:
>
> > --- In amigaOS3_5@egroups.com, "tesla" <tesla@c...> wrote:
> >> I am looking for a unpacker that can be run from windoz.
> Hopefully,
> > it will
> >> unpack all of the common files, such as lzx, lha, etc. The reason
> > why I want
> >> to do it this way, is because I am d/l files off of aminet
> using my
> > pc, as I
> >> don't have my amiga setup to access the internet yet, and I would
> > like to
> >> unpack files before I transfer them to the amiga.
> >
> > Your best bet is winzip, although it uses a dos program for the lha
> > archives(no lzx support) and so does not support long file
> names. It
> > really is better to un archive it on the amiga. If you want to look
> > at the files on the pc use winzip but long file name support is
> > limited.
>
> Goto Aminet and do a search on LHA and LZX. You may need to
> look a little
> but there are lha decompressors and lzx decompressors for Windoze.
>
> I also have to go with the others on this one. I used to do
> this as well
> before I got Internet and regretted doing it.
>
> Unless you have CrossDOS 7 which handles long filenames,
> transporting the
> files to Amiga will result in the names being cut to the 8.3 format.
>
LHA and UNLZX is available for the PC. LHA255 can be downloaded from any
good Simtel site (try http://micros.hensa.ac.uk) and unlzx from Aminet.
There is a version of LHA called LHANT also available on Aminet for long
names.
Peter
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