" +"Everything's fine but I just can't see") QAUTHOR='Element of Crime, "Almost dead"'> <$MACRO QUEST NAME:string> <$if COND=(SET NAME)> Q:<$if COND=(SET Name)> <$MACRO ANSWR> A:  <* define shortcuts for question-text *> <$macro Q.lha>What about those strange .lha files? <$macro Q.lha.corrupt>I've downloaded the .lha-archives using my WWW-Browser, but they seem to be corrupt?! <$macro Q.lha.why>Why .lha at all?! <$macro Q.unknown> doesn't know about the tag XYZ (the attribute ZYX), but I need this one! <$macro Q.ignore> tells me loads of warnings I don't care about! Is there a way to prevent it from doing this? <$macro Q.tool>Somewhere in these manual You are talking about a tool called make/weblint/... Where can I obtain it from? <$macro Q.slow>Why is that slow? <$macro Q.uri>Why do You call it URI? I thought it's URL (Universal Resource Locator or U R lost)? <$macro Q.piss>But URI reminds me of pissing! Add a simple n, and there we are! <$macro Q.jerk>What are jerks?

This chapter provides a list of questions and answers which have come to the mind of several people. Some of them are only neccessary because many users don't read this manual, some of them are not very serious,.. but anyway, here's a list of them:

Questions dealing with the archives
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Questions about and it's usage
Miscelleneous questions


LHA is the standard compression utility for AmigaOS. A portable version of lha is available from .


Seems that your browser has no MIME-type configured for .lha. Look up the manual of your browser how to configure MIME-types.

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Of course I know that .lha-archives can cause trouble to non-Amigoids. You should understand this as test for your IQ being sufficient to deal with . People who are not even able to compile the portable version of LHA mentioned above (or find a already compiled one for their OS on the net) very probably won't be able to compile and use . You are allowed to feel insulted now.

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Read the chapter about Syntax definition and how to extend it.


All non-error messages can be suppressed adding a simple IGNORE=message_id to the call used to invoke . Take a look at the chapter about Options and switches to find out more.


All tools mentioned within these documents should be denoted in the chapter about Related stuff (if not, let me know). Normally I only mention the version for AmigaOS, but the archives or ReadMes usually include some notes where to look for other systems.


One reason is, that handles (nearly) all resources dynamically (That means, it often calls malloc() and free(), which are known to be quite slow).

Another, quite embarrasing, reason is, that most of these resources are kept in linked lists. And therefor, if has to look for something, it sequentially searches these list. Shame on me, I should use an AVL-tree for such things. But the problem with AVL-tree is: though there are lots of sources around, most of them are perverted real C-sources perpetrated by some braindead Unix-fossiles, ignoring the fact that memory can run out or that there is a "-Wall" option in most compilers; some of these sources also date back to 1863, when no one even pretended there is a language definition for C. Currently I'm too lazy to write (and, even more work, test) an AVL-tree myself. Maybe in another life...


Ok, put a finger into your mouth and try to reach as far inside as possible. After some specific point, you will empty your stomach. And what do you say then? Exactly, URL! So the main reason why I do not like the term URL is because it always reminds me of puking.

Additionally, the Internet-Draft for HTML 2.0, June 16, 1995, tells you: 
    URI
            A Universal Resource Identifier is a formatted string
            that serves as an identifier for a resource, typically
            on the Internet. URIs are used in HTML to identify the
            destination of hyperlinks. URIs in common practice
            include Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)[URL] and
            Relative URLs [RELURL].
And one of the users of submitted this interpretation to me: 
    To me it seems:

    URI = URL and RELURL
    URL = "http://www.intercom.no/~XXXXXX/index.html" - always the same doc
    RELURL = "docs/about.html"  - relative to which dir/machine you are on

Anyway, I really like that term URI a lot more and I've never really understood what's the difference between URL and URI. But who cares anyway?


..which I personally prefer to puking. Certainly a matter of taste.


Jerks are persons suffered by a well-known desease called Netscapissm. Their sources contain sections like 
    BODY BGCOLOR=#123456
    BLINKClick here!/BLINK

But, not all jerks became jerks because they like to be a jerk. Very often, jerks are forced to use code as seen above by their employee. In this case, they should be refered to as prostitutes.