I tried to extract LHA archives using the Commander and I saw a file name at the beginning of the uncompressed files and some of their last bytes were chopped off. How is this possible?
You are using LHA 2.13 or an older version. The Commander and Star LHA are using the “print” command instead of the usual “extract” command. The reason for this is that when specifying the name of files to extract, a file name with a space inside (not unlikely for a Commodore file name) would make LHA assume it to be two separate file names. Therefore, all the files in the archive are printed, as one continuous stream, into a single file and then the necessary parts are picked out. Unfortunately, LHA 2.13 and older versions prepend the file name to each printout which is garbage for the Commander and Star LHA. Get the official LHA 2.55 English release to solve this problem. • Q: My Commodore drive makes so awful noises when I format disks with the Commander. Can I avoid this? A: Yes, you can, but make sure that your drive is not misaligned. When you format a disk, the original format command bangs the head against the bump, to make sure that it’s the outermost track being named “track
