On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 12:15 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote: > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 06:32 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Every month I get emailed a file 'month' which I have to rename to > > 'month.exe' and the execute using a Windows box (tried xdos, wine etc. > > - bochs+freedos worked for a while now doesn't). > > > > The program is a self extracting LHA archive. Is there a way natively > > in Linux (RH7.3+errata) to extract the contents of the archive? > > You might try the lha package included with the distro. I've never used it > myself, but it appears to do what you want: > $ rpm -qip /devel/dist-7.3/stock/RedHat/RPMS/lha-1.14i-4.i386.rpm > [...] > Description : > LHA is an archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archives. > LHA is mostly used in the DOS world, but can be used under Linux to > extract DOS files from LHA archives. > > Install the lha package if you need to extract DOS files from LHA > archives.
Thanks for that Michael. I already had the LHA rpm installed but for some reason thought I'd tried it some time in the past and it had failed - which I put down to the self-exctract exe addon. However, I've just tried it and it worked fine. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
