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- FixLhA v1.0 by CircleSoft
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-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Has this ever happened to you? You have been sitting for hours
- downloading stuff from the net, putting it on disks, and carrying
- it home to your beloved Amiga, or maybe downloading it again with a
- modem, and when you try to unpack the first archive, LhA pops up
- with '...skipping corrupt/externous data' for every file in the
- archive! You try the next, and the same thing happens! And the
- next, and the next... And then you remeber: Oh, maybe I should have
- set the transfer mode to binary...
-
- If so, then this program might just be what you need!
-
- One night, after downloading lots of files with lynx, a WWW-browser
- that in it's infinite wisdom always downloads files in ascii mode
- (which I didn't know, until I tried to unpack...), I wrote the
- first version of this program in AMOS three o'clock at night...
- Later, when I finally got Sas/C, I wrote this version. This program
- has spared me a lot of suffering, so I thought I might as well
- release it.
-
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- - An Amiga with at least 8 meg ram and a 040 or higher processor.
- - Kickstart and WorkBench 3.1
- - about 430 megs of HD space
-
- Nah, just kidding. ;) It should work on any Amiga. if it doesn't,
- then contact me.
-
-
-
- USAGE
-
- Now this is simple: Just enter "FixLha" followed by the names of
- the files you want to fix.
-
- The fixed files will have the name of the original file + ".fix".
- Check if they are okay before you delete the lod file, because I
- can't guarantee that they will be fixed. The program uses a bit
- questionable routines, but they seem to work for me. I haven't
- tried it on anything else than LhA-archives, but it may work on
- others, too. (Don't count on it...)
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-
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- ObjectArchive complains that the header is too short (it is!) but
- works anyway... Other programs than LhA might not recognize the
- archive, but nothing like that has happened to me.
-
- The best thing to do is to unpack the fixed archive, and pack it
- again. That way any funny things left in the archive by FixLhA will
- be removed.
-
-
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- HISTORY
-
- v1.0
-
- - First public release
-
-
-
- FUTURE
-
- - Maybe an ASL filerequester
- - Options...
-
- If you have any ideas, contact me.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- This is Public Domain. Do what you want with it, except feeding it
- to your cat. if you're the author of a shareware program, and you
- REALLY want to thank me (can't imagine why...) then send me a
- registered version of your program. That's asking too much, is it?
-
-
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- AUTHOR
-
- Send bugreports, suggestions, flames (NOT!), thank-you letters,
- mail containing 1277 W's to this email addy:
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- dagagre@walli.uwasa.fi
-
- or if that doesn't work (the managers are a bit weird....) then use
- this:
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- Dag_Agren@llauta.fipnet.fi
-
- or if you prefer snail mail (poor you... ;):
-
- Dag Ågren
- Västerbackvägen 37
- 66200 Korsnäs
- Finland
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-
-
- GREETINGS ETC.
-
- Greeting to: Anden, Manne, Vigge, Johan, Jonas and Joakim at
- CircleSoft!
- Peik, Öjvind, Mika, Anders, Carl-Magnus, Ica, Anu and
- the rest of the people at Pandora's Box!
- Also to: Pasi Ristioja (get his superb terminal prog
- DreamTerm!), Sami Takala, Staffan Nyström,
- Mikael Jänisoja and everybdy who have done
- something good for the A M I G A !!!!
-
- And f**k the morons that run WALLI!!!
-
- And remeber: Why buy a PC when you can buy a computer?
-