Re: Bug#160928: ITP: 7zip -- 7zip is file compressor which can handle many archive formats
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
LZX is about 10 years old - last version is from 1995-7 (didn't
remember - I stopped using AmigaOS ~two years ago). Many Amiga archives
are packed with lha because lzx was amigaos-only archiver.
EOT.
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Marcin 'Szczepan|Hrw' Juszkiewicz
mailto: marcin<at>amiga<dot>pl
my Debian packages: deb http://users.stone.pl/szczepan/ apt/
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