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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Compression SuffixeDIR/ALLs
Message-ID: <982@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 20:44:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.022038.39529@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1991Mar1.022038.39529@eagle.wesleyan.edu> jbernstein@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>What does the suffix   .lzh  mean?

This means that the file is an archive created with the archiver "lharc".
It could contain 1 file, or many, including directories

>   	What does the suffix   .lhw  mean?

This means that the file is an archive created with the archiver "lhwarp".
lwarp archives entire disks as blocks, so that the actual disk structure is
retained, and not just the file contents.  Note that if you lhwarp a disk
with a boot-block virus on it, the virus will be archived as well.  (This
seems to be the major drawback to using this).  This method allows archiving
turnkey type disks.

Both of these should be on ab20.  I don't know if and/or where they are, but
a quick grep of FILE.Z should point them out to you.  Also, virtually any
BBS will have these.  Many BBS's require that all uploaded files be .lzh
archives.

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		Dave Schaumann		dave@cs.arizona.edu
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