LHA (file format)
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| LHA | |
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| File extension: | .lzh, .lha |
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| 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.
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 or Quake. LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is the main archiving format on the Commodore Amiga computer. This is due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg's implementation of LHA for the Amiga. Microsoft has released a Windows XP add-on, Microsoft Compression Folder for LHA archives, for the Japanese market only[1].
[edit] See also
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- List of LHA resources
- A history of data compression in Japan
- jLHA - LHA library for Java
- LHA for Unix (Japanese)
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