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

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 13:31:25 EST 2025


Okay, a little bit of research reveals that the utility was never called
LZH. It has always been lha, with a few exceptions early on where the name
went through changes, but it always began with LH. It may be that you can
only use the OS-9 version of lha to dearchive .lzh files.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 10:00 AM Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> LZH is not included in the EOU distribution. I could swear I have a copy
> of it somewhere, but I can't find it. I looked in the color computer
> archive, and there doesn't appear to be any OS-9 utilities that I can find.
> I think we need to make an OS-9 category in the archive specifically for
> OS-9 software. At any rate, I will keep looking to see if I can find the
> copy of lzh that I know I used to have.
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 8:33 AM L. Curtis Boyle via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > 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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