Subj : Re: Summary of archiver command lines
To   : Stephen Walsh
From : Bj”rn Wiberg
Date : Sat Aug 07 2021 12:03 pm

Hello Stephen!

Thank you for your reply!

On 07 Aug 2021, Stephen Walsh said the following...
 SW>  BW> (lha currently does not support creating archives on Linux, so empty
 SW>  BW> Pack Cmd)
 SW> 
 SW> I'm not having any issues creating lha archives on linux. (Debian)
 SW> 
 SW> Pack Cmd: lha -ao5fi "%1%" "%2%"
 SW> 
 SW> Compiled from source: LHa for UNIX version 1.14i-ac20081023
 SW> (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Sorry -- I should have mentioned -- the problems (lack of archive creation support) are when using the Debian-packaged version of lha -- lhasa:

root@glimmer:~# apt-cache show lhasa
Package: lhasa
Version: 0.3.1-3
Installed-Size: 46
Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: lha, lzh-archiver
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), liblhasa0 (= 0.3.1-3)
Conflicts: lha (<< 1.14i-10.4)
Description-en: lzh archive decompressor
 Lhasa lha is a tool for parsing LHA (.lzh) archives and a free
 replacement for the Unix LHA tool.
 .
 Currently it is only possible to read from (ie. decompress) archives;
 generating (compressing) LHA archives may be an enhancement for future
 versions. The aim is to be compatible with as many different variants
 of the LHA file format as possible, including LArc (.lzs) and
 PMarc (.pma).
 .
 The command line tool aims to be interface-compatible with the non-free
 Unix LHA tool (command line syntax and output), for backwards
 compatibility with tools that expect particular output.
Description-md5: 11c02758a2e2ad3aa2ab14056e1b6be3
Homepage: http://fragglet.github.com/lhasa/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lhasa/lhasa_0.3.1-3_amd64.deb
Size: 18240
MD5sum: 96753d0565d28af28672db82e71160ec
SHA256: 4954bd89e21986311f409e1264b51321f38b5a6db004b75eb3d56c77ea8337c3

But you're right -- for those running "LHa for UNIX" (https://github.com/jca02266/lha), the Pack Cmds should be there. Thanks!

Best regards
Bj”rn

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