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                                LhA V1.11

                LhArc and LHA compatible archiver for the
                        Commodore-Amiga Computer

                  Copyright (c) 1991,92 By Stefan Boberg

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This is a brief list of the features of the LhA program.. For more
detailed information about the program and it's operation please refer to
the user's manual in `LhA.man'.

o The archives LhA handles normally have names ending in `.LZH' or `.LHA'

o LhA is faster than any other archiver currently available for the
  Commodore-Amiga computer and also features the best compression
  performance. For comparisons with other archivers speed- and
  compression-wise read the `why LhA' section in the manual.

o LhA is compatible with the MS-DOS archivers `LhArc V1.13' and `LHA
  V2.13' as well as *NIX LhArc V1.01.

o LhA is very memory-efficient, and can be configured to only use
  approx. 100K (including program) for decompression of files using any
  compression mode. Compression can be performed in approx. 205KB with
  both -lh1- and -lh5- compression modes.

o LhA has been written with stability and reliability in mind, it will
  handle all kinds of errors during archiving and extraction. This is
  something other LhArc/LHA-style archivers have handled more or less
  badly.

o The compression and decompression routines have been carefully
  optimized and tested in order to eliminate bugs and at the same time
  offer unparalelled compression and decompression performance. While
  the initial release of LhA had some problems with compressing some
  files, this release is entirely bug-free in that area.

o LhA is multitasking reentrant and pure, and can be made resident with
  the KS1.3, KS2.0, WShell and other compatible `resident' commands.
  This means several processes can run on the same code, and the code
  does not have to be re-loaded every time it is run.

o The registered-user version of the archiver (which is only available
  to registered users) features even faster compression and handles
  multiple-volume archives. It also has a great number of additional
  commands and options that are not available with any other archiver.
  The registered version also requires less memory to compress and
  decompress.

o LhA has very powerful and flexible command line parsing. You can use
  wildcards for both archives and action-files with all commands and you
  can also include any file anywhere on the command line, so that it
  appears to LhA as if you had written the contents of the include-file
  at the command line. LhA also has an unique `home directory'
  specification technique that can be used to specify what parts of the
  paths that should be stored in the archive file.

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