Re: Bug#160928: ITP: 7zip -- 7zip is file compressor which can handle many archive formats

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Subject: Re: Bug#160928: ITP: 7zip -- 7zip is file compressor which can handle many archive formats
From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:38:50 +0100
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In chiark.mail.debian.devel, you wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:08:25PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>> Is this because they are frustated Amiga owners?
>
>Amiga users prefers (closed source) LZX over LHA. There is open source
>lzx de-archiver (called unlzx) on Aminet.

Now, perhaps. Many Amiga-generated datafiles are archived with LHA
(collections of mod files, for instance). Since these aren't inherently
platform dependent, an LHA extractor is useful.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.devel@srcf.ucam.org

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