LhA extract

Let's say I am in RAM: and I have an LhA archive. I want to extract 1 file from it that is a few drawers deep.

LhA x RAM:archive.lha Drawer1/Drawer2/TheFile RAM:

This works, but it makes the 2 drawers first then puts TheFile in them (full path extracted).

Using 'LhA e' I hoped would not create the drawers, just put TheFile in RAM: root.

I also tried 'LhA -x0 e' but that doesn't extract anything.

Is there a way to do this?

@mritter0

I don't think that is possible unfortunately.

While there is an option to "-x Preserve and use path names" they forgot to add one to truncate any remaining pathes.

@mritter0

try:

LhA p -qN RAM:archive.lha Drawer1/Drawer2/TheFile >ram:TheFile

This almost works but adds \n-------------> END OF FILE <-------------\n to the file, theoretically if it's an exe it shouldn't hurt, the example program I extracted worked ok.

You're other option is a small dos script eg.

.key archive,file
.bra {
.ket }
lha x {archive} {file} ram:
move ram:{file} ram:
delete ram:{file} all force

This will leave a few emtpy drawers lurking in ram: but at least they don't take up any space.


A neater way is to use dopus5 and xad to open the archive in a lister and just copy the file you want where you want. or use xadfilesystem do mount the archive as a partition and do the same.

Maybe XADUnFile might work, I've not tried that though.

@mritter0

IIRC, you should use

LhA -x2 RAM:archive.lha Drawer1/Drawer2/TheFile RAM:

to get what you want.

@whose

Ahhh... I was only looking at the help text in the program and not the badly but properly designed guide file, the index function is so rarely used I keep forgetting about it, maybe I should redisgn it a little, you almost got it right, it needs an 'e'...

LhA e -x2 RAM:archive.lha Drawer1/Drawer2/TheFile RAM:

@Severin

Ah, missed the "e", right... I´m getting old, I think

@whose

I think I am too but a can't really remember

@Severin

Yeah, there are three things we get worse at when we get old:

- Remembering
- Hearing
- Remembering

IIRC

Best regards,

Niels

-x2 got it. Thanks