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- LhA V1.10
-
- LhArc and LHA compatible archiver for the
- Commodore-Amiga Computer
-
- Copyright (c) 1991,92 By Stefan Boberg
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- This is a brief list of the features of the LhA program.. For more
- detailed information about the program and it's operation please refer to
- the user's manual in `LhA.man'.
-
- o The archives LhA handles normally have names ending in `.LZH' or `.LHA'
-
- o LhA is faster than any other archiver currently available for the
- Commodore-Amiga computer and also features the best compression
- performance. For comparisons with other archivers speed- and
- compression-wise read the `why LhA' section in the manual.
-
- o LhA is compatible with the MS-DOS archivers `LhArc V1.13' and `LHA
- V2.13' as well as *NIX LhArc V1.01.
-
- o LhA is very memory-efficient, and can be configured to only use
- approx. 100K (including program) for decompression of files using any
- compression mode. Compression can be performed in approx. 205KB with
- both -lh1- and -lh5- compression modes.
-
- o LhA has been written with stability and reliability in mind, it will
- handle all kinds of errors during archiving and extraction. This is
- something other LhArc/LHA-style archivers have handled more or less
- badly.
-
- o The compression and decompression routines have been carefully
- optimized and tested in order to eliminate bugs and at the same time
- offer unparalelled compression and decompression performance.
-
- o LhA is multitasking reentrant and pure, and can be made resident with
- the KS1.3, KS2.0, WShell and other compatible `resident' commands. This
- means several processes can run on the same code, and the code does
- not have to be re-loaded every time it is run.
-
- o The registered-user version of the archiver (which is only available
- to registered users) features even faster compression and handles
- multiple-volume archives. It also has a great number of additional
- commands and options that are not available with any other archiver.
-
- o LhA has very powerful and flexible command line parsing. You can use
- wildcards for both archives and action-files with all commands and you
- can also include any file anywhere on the command line, so that it
- appears to LhA as if you had written the contents of the include-file
- at the command line. LhA also has an unique `home directory'
- specification technique that can be used to specify what parts of the
- paths that should be stored in the archive file.
-
- o LhASFX, which is part of the LhA package, is able to create SFX (self-
- extracting) archives from ordinary LhA-archives. SFX archives are
- archives that can be extracted/listed/tested by simply executing the
- archive. For more information refer to the LhASFX documentation. The
- SFX-archives LhASFX creates are very memory-efficient, only requires
- 48K to run regardless of archive size.
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