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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to decode .lzh files?
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.095346.16512@uwasa.fi>
Date: 30 Oct 90 09:53:46 GMT
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In article <15450@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>
>How do you do it?
>
>I know ZIP, ZOO, ARC, but I don't know LZH!

You'll find the information in the enclosed extract from my
/pc/ts/tsfaq11.arc questions & answers collection:

13. *****
 Q1: What is this file with this .zip (or whatever) extension? What
am I supposed to do to it?
 Q2: I can't run this file I got with a .zip extension.

 A: This is a total beginner's question, but never mind. One is
supposed to start from somewhere. These files with a .zip (.arc,
.lzh, .pak. .zoo) are compressed collections of files. You are not
supposed to run a compressed entity (often also called an archive).
You are supposed to unpack it first to extract the files from within
the package. For this you need the relevant (un)packing program. You
can find them in the /pc/pd2 directory at the anonymous ftp site
uwasa.fi, or at practically any bulletin board. (After you have
gotten them, they are very easy to process, since most often these
utilities are self-extracting). At the time of writing this we have
eg
  arc602.exe      SEA's packing/unpacking system.
  lh114b.exe      Dense compression from Japan, (hacked?) version
  pak250.exe      NoGate (un)packing for .pak and .arc files
  pk361.exe       This packs and unpacks .arc files fast
  pkz110eu.exe    PKZIP/PKUNZIP "Euroversion" with no encryption
  zoo201.exe      Zoo packing/unpacking facility from Rahul Dhesi
Once you are well familiar with unpacking and packing, there is an
excellent shell for running these utilities. It is called SHEZ and
is in version /pc/pd2/shez58.zip at the time I wrote this item.
   Another advanced feature once you get the hang of this, is that
(most of) these are available in the Unix environment, as well. See
the /unix/ts directory at uwasa.fi for the Unix versions.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun