[Tutor] Re: LHA compression

[lonetwin]

Hi,
    Thanx for replying dman, Sean. Actually, I myself hadn't heard of LHA 
compression till I bought a Casio PV(S460) a few days back, there is an 
application called TextViewer (an ebook reader) for the PV that requires 
files to be compressed using lha compression. The author of the app. has also 
written an application called PVUploader that lets you upload the archive to 
the PV thru' linux (Unfortunately ....most of the other s/w that lets you 
interact with the PV runs only on windoze). 
	So I thought of writing a front end to PVUploader (....maybe even
some other apps too) using python. That's the reason why I was wondering if  
a lha module was available.
	Anyways, I discovered lha is available for most linux distros (free too 
...does debian really have it non free ???). So I guess it's ok. Although, 
not having to build a dependency on lha would have been nice.

Thanx again

Peace
Steve

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 10:00 pm, you wrote:
> On 16-Jul-2002 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0530, lonetwin wrote:
> >| Anyways, here's the question. How do I (if I can...that is) create a
> >| lha archive using Python ? I can't seem to find any modules for doing
> >| this.
> >
> > I am not aware of any software (except for an old MS-DOS program I
> > used to have, back in the days of MS-DOS 3.3) for handling lha
> > archives.
>
> there is a port of said DOS app to Unix, Debian has it in non-free.
>
> > If you can find the specification for the format of the file then you
> > can write the module for createing the archives.  Alternatively, just
> > use zip or tar or tar+gzip instead.
>
> I haven't seen a usage in recent years that was not at least bending the
> laws. Games cracking mostly.
>
>
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