[Coco] Extract an .LZH file in OS9

[Aaron Wolfe]

That can happen if you have the wrong version of lha.. there are
several versions floating around.  Since you have dw4, here is a handy
script to get the version that seems to work for me (if lha and xlh
already exist in dd/cmds, have to delete/rename em first):

dw s l ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/ARCHIVERS/lha211c.bin > /dd/cmds/lha
dw s l ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/ARCHIVERS/xlh.bin > /dd/cmds/xlh
attr /dd/cmds/lha e pe
attr /dd/cmds/xlh e pe

either just copy/paste that into an os9 session via telnet, or put
those lines into a file and use dw s l to copy the text file from pc
to coco, then execute it there.

another possibility is that you've found one of the (possibly) corrupt
files on rtsi.  I have run into a few that nothing will unpack, or
that unpack only the first X files but fail in the middle.  never been
entirely sure if I just never found the magic version combination or
if they really are bad.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:23 PM, John Orwen <jorwen at neb.rr.com> wrote:
> Its been way too long since I ran a dos based BBS and extracted files and I
> am brand new to Nitros9 L2 now.
> I downloaded a file from RTSI in a .lzh package to my PC and transfered to
> OS9 on my coco3 with Drivewire4.
> I tried to extract the files in it by typing LHA x filename.lzh and got a
> message [ extracting filename ], two OS9 errors and a message [ damaged lzh
> file ].  Am I doing something wrong or missing something.
>
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