Star LHA

This program was designed to create Commodore LHA archives out of disk images and to extract them into disk images. It uses LHA for DOS (© by Haruyasu Yoshizaki, 1988-1992) for compression and decompression, remember to put it into your path. Star LHA is an external utility of The Star Commander but is also distributed separately.

CREDIT: Included in this program is the C64/C128 LHA Extractor (© by Chris Smeets, 1990).

WARNING: Star LHA needs LHA for DOS 2.14 or newer to be able to create or extract LHA archives!

1. Usage

   STARLHA [-]A <diskname> [-|/C|D|S|Y] [<lhaname>] 
STARLHA [-]L <lhaname>
STARLHA [-]S[+|-] <lhaname>
   STARLHA [-]X <lhaname> [-|/4|7|8|C|D|X[D|P|S]|Y] [<diskname>] 

Commands:

<diskname>:

Type the path and the name of the disk images here (the extension is always ".d64" for 1541, ".d71" for 1571 and ".d81" for 1581 disk images). Leave this parameter blank to extract the archives into disk images with the same name. You can use wildcards to add multiple disk images and you can use long filenames, too.

<lhaname>:

Type the path, the name and the extension of the archives here (the default extension of LHA archives is ".lzh", for LHA SFX archives it is ".sfx"). You may leave it blank and the names of the archives will be those of the original disk images. You can use wildcards to list or extract multiple archives and you can use long filenames, too.

Options:

When decompressing an LHA archive, the program checks if the first file in the archive has the name "title". If it does then this file contains a comment which is displayed before decompression. However, the display routine can only handle the control codes $0D (carriage return), $0E and $8E (changing to lowercase/uppercase and uppercase/graphics character set). All other control codes are omitted.

2. Error messages

3. Copyright and legal issues

This program is freeware. You may use it as long as you wish and you may give it to any individual, provided that it's in the original, unmodified archive. It is highly recommended that you download distribution packages from the homepage or other official distribution sites. If you get a package from somewhere else then make sure that the package has the author's authentic verification stamped on it.

The source of this program is distributed under a license that is similar to the GNU Public License but is more restrictive, for the protection of the users and the author. You may distribute only those modified versions or derived softwares that satisfy all restrictions in the license. When you distribute this program, modified versions of it or softwares derived from it, you may not ask for money above the normal fee of the distribution media itself. Furthermore, you may not publish this program or its source on floppy disks, CD-ROM's, FTP sites, WWW pages or any other distribution media, include it in a software compilation or bundle it with other software or hardware without prior permission of the author.

Note that public distribution of the beta releases of this program is prohibited. The only place where you can find them is the homepage.

This program is provided "as is", without a warranty of any kind. You are using it at your own risk. The author is not liable for any damage or data loss caused by the software.

4. The author

If you're interested in some similarly useful utilities then contact me at the E-mail address sta.ANTI@SPAM.c64.org or visit my homepage at http://sta.c64.org.

Joe Forster/STA
11th January, 2010

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