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LZH files: what are they and how do I open them?

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LH ARC compressed archive

Files with lzh extension can be most often found as compressed archives saved using LH ARC compression format which was often used on Commodore Amiga computers.

Further details:

File extension lzh is used for LHA/LZH Compressed Archive File.

A compression format which started on the Amiga but has migrated to other platforms. The various programs base their algorithms on those developed by Lempel-Ziv.

Files compressed with LHA typically have the extension .lzh but variations abound (lhw, lzs, lzw). LHA was created by Haruyasu Yoshizaki.

It uses the same lz77 algorithm as GZip with a tree data structure plus block-by-block secondary status Huffman coding.

MIME types:
application/octet-stream
application/x-lzh
application/lzh
application/x-lha
application/x-compress
application/x-compressed
application/x-lzh-archive
zz-application/zz-winassoc-lzh
application/maclha

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