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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LHA .lzh archiver revisited including patches
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.171505.27535@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Feb 91 17:15:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.194814.10674@uwasa.fi> <3185@sixhub.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <3185@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1991Feb11.194814.10674@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>
>| interface.  (Apply lha_e.bat to patch).  Unfortunately there already
>| was a different version of lha205.exe in the /pc/pd2 directory (with
>| some English documentation).  Therefore I'll take the liberty of
>| renaming this new arrival as lha205j.exe. 
>
>  Note that the lha205j.exe version has a lot more documentation.
>However, the lha205.exe version has it's mimited information in English
>rather than Japanese. The working part seems the same.

   Yes.  To repeat for general information.  The renamed lha205j.exe
and it's patch to English bdiff.lzh originate from the University of
Tokyo, whence I got it by anonymous ftp. 
   There seems to be several incarnations of this _beta_test_
version around in various BBSes under the same name lha205.exe. 
Some have been already patched.  Some have Japanese documentation,
some English.  This plethora of combinations is, of course, an
inevitable consequence of releasing a non-English version of such a
popular utility.  But that seems to have been the author's choice. 
   Incidentally have there ever been versions of lharc (or lha) that
have not been called test versions?

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Prof. Timo Salmi        
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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