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'LHA' is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , and originally named 'LHarc'. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named ''LHx'', was eventually released as ''LH''. It was then renamed to ''LHA'' to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 LH ("load high") command.
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, including ''Doom'' and ''Quake''. LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is the main archiving format on the Commodore Amiga computer. This is due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg's implementation of LHA for the Amiga. Microsoft has released a Windows XP add-on, Microsoft Compression Folder for LHA archives, for the Japanese market only[1].

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★ List of archive formats

★ LZX

External links

★ A history of data compression in Japan

★ jLHA - LHA library for Java

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★ jLHA front-end

★ LHA for Unix (Japanese)