[Coco] Extracting OS-9/6809 .lzh files today?

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Sun Mar 2 11:32:53 EST 2025


There were two LHA based archives/unarchivers for the Coco 3, and they weren’t compatible with each other. (LHA/XLH and LZH). LHA is preinstalled in EOU if you want to try extracting one and see if that works; I don’t remember if LZH is preinstalled or not (but I did have a copy around).
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> On Mar 2, 2025, at 12:13 AM, Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to extract some OS-9/6809 .lzh files. On my Mac, I installed lha, but it gives me a checksum error on my files. It says:
> 
> "LHa: Error: Checksum error (LHarc file?)”
> 
> What will open these files?
> 
> Side note… the help for LHA mentions OSK:
> 
> allenh at Mac ALS copy % lha --help
> LHarc    for UNIX  V 1.02  Copyright(C) 1989  Y.Tagawa
> LHx      for MSDOS V C2.01 Copyright(C) 1990  H.Yoshizaki
> LHx(arc) for OSK   V 2.01  Modified     1990  Momozou
> LHa      for UNIX  V 1.00  Copyright(C) 1992  Masaru Oki
> LHa      for UNIX  V 1.14  Modified     1995  Nobutaka Watazaki
> LHa      for UNIX  V 1.14i Modified     2000  Tsugio Okamoto
> LHA-PMA  for UNIX  V 2     PMA added    2000  Maarten ter Huurne
>                   Autoconfiscated 2001-2008  Koji Arai
> usage: lha [-]<commands>[<options>] [-<options> ...] archive_file [file...]
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