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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Subject: Re: Uncompressing Alien File Formats
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- Keywords: Use Opener
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- Organization: Purdue University
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:49:31 GMT
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- In article <6897@news.duke.edu> dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu writes:
- > This evening I was strolling through wuarchive.wustl.edu looking for some
- > ModPlayer files. What puzzled me, though, was the .lzh and .lha extensions
- > on the majority of the files. I suspect that this is an Amiga abbreviation
- > for a LZW-type file compression or something else. I've crossed this path
- > with .hqx extensions for files that have been BinHex'd in the Macintosh
- > world, but this one had me stumped. Is there anything in NeXT-ish parlance
- > or Unix-speak that will uncompress these by chance. Just curious. Thanx.
-
- Opener will do .lzh and .hqx. I don't know if it will do .lha
- yet, but I know the decoder is available on the NeXT. If
- you've got Opener installed, you just double click on the
- files and, whamo!, they open as directories in the File
- Viewer. Just like a NeXT is supposed to work, eh? :-)
-
- Allen B (Sounds a lot like my last posting)
-