how do i decompress from one drive and write the file to another drive?

[sgt_chimp]

The how to guides tell you how to decompress with LHA and write to the same drive. But I want to decompress from the built in disk drive and write the file to the RAM disk or the second disk drive, how would i go about doing this?

[RetroMan]

just set the destination drive and/or directory at the end of the command line, like "lha blablablabla (options etc.) whatever.lha DESTINATION" .....

[sgt_chimp]

What do i call the ram disk when trying to extract to it as i've tried

LHA E(for extract) <filename>.lha ram disk

and it fails

[§ane]

LhA x archive.lha ram:directory/

Make sure that you include the forward slash at the end to indicate a directory and not a file, if the directory doesn't exist it will be created.

[TikTok]

Also, it's usually better to use x like Sane does to extract, because e will not preserve the directory structure of the archive, which can be a pain. But if you're only extracting single files I guess it makes no difference :D.

[RetroMan]

:laughing hupssss, I didn´t noticed the problem was how to call the ram disk :laughing

oh btw. as TikTok said ..... allways use X as decompress option (not E) !