LHA (file format)

LHA is a freeware Data compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by Haruyasu Yoshizaki (吉崎栄泰, Yoshizaki Haruyasu ), and originally named LHarc.

Although no longer much used in the West, LHA remains popular in Japan. It was used by id Software to compress installation files for their earlier games, such as Doom. LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is the main archiving format on Amiga computers. This is due to Aminet, the world s largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg s implementation of LHA on the Amiga.

=Filename extension=

*.lzh (all systems) *.lha (Amiga)

=MIME-Type=

*application/x-lzh-compressed

=See also=

*List of archive formats *LZX *[http://www.compression-links.info/LHA List of LHA resources]

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