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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:14 Apr 2001 at 23:07:49
Subject:Re: Which AA CD will BB1 for OS3.9 be on?

Matt Sealey said,

> Hello Neil

>>
>> You could split the Zip file and copy those, then join the pieces on the
>> Amiga. Or you could unpack it on the PC using WinZip with its LhA plugin
>> and repack it into smaller chunks....

> Hahaha ;)

> LHA plugin? You must be kidding, or using something I've never seen. As
> far as I know it uses an ancient port of LHA, which only "does" 8.3 filenames
> and uses the more ancient LHA compression methods. You can't pack the files,
> only unpack them... and it's not a plugin, it just executes a dos command!

> Unless you know different, Neil?

Only what I've read here and elsewhere. I did download some support
files for other formats for WinZip recently,but since I never use WinZip
except for installing software from Zip files, I never bothered looking
at them.

What's the program that supports long filenames in LhA archives on the
PC then?

Waiting ten days for AACD20 would probably be the easiest solution.

Neil



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