FixLhA v1.0 by CircleSoft
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INTRODUCTION

Has this ever happened to you? You have been sitting for hours
downloading stuff from the net, putting it on disks, and carrying
it home to your beloved Amiga, or maybe downloading it again with a
modem, and when you try to unpack the first archive, LhA pops up
with '...skipping corrupt/externous data' for every file in the
archive! You try the next, and the same thing happens! And the
next, and the next... And then you remeber: Oh, maybe I should have
set the transfer mode to binary...

If so, then this program might just be what you need!

One night, after downloading lots of files with lynx, a WWW-browser
that in it's infinite wisdom always downloads files in ascii mode
(which I didn't know, until I tried to unpack...), I wrote the
first version of this program in AMOS three o'clock at night...
Later, when I finally got Sas/C, I wrote this version. This program
has spared me a lot of suffering, so I thought I might as well
release it.



REQUIREMENTS

- An Amiga with at least 8 meg ram and a 040 or higher processor.
- Kickstart and WorkBench 3.1
- about 430 megs of HD space

Nah, just kidding. ;) It should work on any Amiga. if it doesn't,
then contact me.



USAGE

Now this is simple: Just enter "FixLha" followed by the names of
the files you want to fix.

The fixed files will have the name of the original file + ".fix".
Check if they are okay before you delete the lod file, because I
can't guarantee that they will be fixed. The program uses a bit
questionable routines, but they seem to work for me. I haven't
tried it on anything else than LhA-archives, but it may work on
others, too. (Don't count on it...)



KNOWN PROBLEMS

ObjectArchive complains that the header is too short (it is!) but
works anyway... Other programs than LhA might not recognize the
archive, but nothing like that has happened to me.

The best thing to do is to unpack the fixed archive, and pack it
again. That way any funny things left in the archive by FixLhA will
be removed.



HISTORY

v1.0

- First public release



FUTURE

- Maybe an ASL filerequester
- Options...

If you have any ideas, contact me.


COPYRIGHT

This is Public Domain. Do what you want with it, except feeding it
to your cat. if you're the author of a shareware program, and you
REALLY want to thank me (can't imagine why...) then send me a
registered version of your program. That's asking too much, is it?



AUTHOR

Send bugreports, suggestions, flames (NOT!), thank-you letters,
mail containing 1277 W's to this email addy:

dagagre@walli.uwasa.fi

or if that doesn't work (the managers are a bit weird....) then use
this:

Dag_Agren@llauta.fipnet.fi

or if you prefer snail mail (poor you... ;):

Dag Ågren
Västerbackvägen 37
66200 Korsnäs
Finland



GREETINGS ETC.

Greeting to: Anden, Manne, Vigge, Johan, Jonas and Joakim at
             CircleSoft!
             Peik, Öjvind, Mika, Anders, Carl-Magnus, Ica, Anu and
             the rest of the people at Pandora's Box!
             Also to: Pasi Ristioja (get his superb terminal prog
                      DreamTerm!), Sami Takala, Staffan Nyström,
                      Mikael Jänisoja and everybdy who have done
                      something good for the A M I G A !!!!

And f**k the morons that run WALLI!!!

And remeber: Why buy a PC when you can buy a computer?