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Encyclopedia > LHA (file format)
LHA
File extension: .lzh, .lha
MIME type: application/x-lzh-compressed
Developed by: Haruyasu Yoshizaki
Type of format: Data compression

LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by Haruyasu Yoshizaki (吉崎栄泰, Yoshizaki Haruyasu), and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named LHx, was eventually released as LH. It was then renamed to LHA to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 LH ("load high") command. A filename extension is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer users (as well as various pieces of software on the computer system) to quickly determine the type of data stored in the file. ... Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail. ... In computer science, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than a more obvious representation would use, through use of specific encoding schemes. ... Freeware is computer software which is made available free of charge, as opposed to payware where the user is required to pay. ... In computer science, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than a more obvious representation would use, through use of specific encoding schemes. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...


Although no longer much used in the West, LHA remains popular in Japan. It was used by id Software to compress installation files for their earlier games, such as Doom. LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is the main archiving format on Amiga computers. This is due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg's implementation of LHA on the Amiga. id Software is a computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... Doom (or DOOM) is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ... The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ... Aminet is the worlds largest archive of Amiga related software and files. ...

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Filename extension

  • .lzh (all systems)
  • .lha (Amiga)

A filename extension is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer users (as well as various pieces of software on the computer system) to quickly determine the type of data stored in the file. ... The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ...

MIME-Type

  • application/x-lzh-compressed

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail. ...

See also

This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors. ... LZX is the name of an LZ77 family compression algorithm. ...

External links


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[2] What is this .xxx file type? Where can I find the corresponding compression program? (988 words)
If you are looking for the file format of a specific compression program, look at "The File Format Collection" in http://www.wotsit.org and/or get the sources of the decompressor.
To get the original uncompressed.exe: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/execomp/ To create such files: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/execomp/lzexe91e.zip ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/windows/util/winlite1.zip (for Windows).gif: gif files are images compressed with the LZW algorithm.
Otherwise: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/compression/ (not in.Z format to avoid chicken and egg problem) compress for MSDOS ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/compress/comp430d.zip ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/ ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/source/comp430s.zip compress for Macintosh ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/cmp/ compress for Amiga ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/utilities/archivers/ compress for VAX/VMS ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/compression/vax-vms/lzcomp.exe ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/compression/vax-vms/lzdcmp.exe
OnHand PC - LHA to uncompress LZH extensions (2064 words)
LHA overwrites any file in the archive by the given file name with 'a' command.
If LHA detects a file with the name same as the one in the archive, then LHA selects the new one to add to archive, by comparing the time stamp of each.
FILE(s) with read-only attribute is archived with the attribute.
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