lha buffering

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Is there any way to get lha to buffer the archived file on the hard drive instead of ram. I have 16 megs of ram, but I am trying to lha a 35 meg file. It gets to about 22megs then freezes. The ram disk is full only a few k left in both fast and chip ram. I was wnting it to buffer to the hard drive so I can archive the whole file.

[Hewitson]

Does it have to be an lha? I know for a fact that zip will work, if you have your heart set on using an archiver that's native to the amiga then LZX will probably do what you want.

[thomas]

Is there any way to get lha to buffer the archived file on the hard drive instead of ram. I have 16 megs of ram, but I am trying to lha a 35 meg file. It gets to about 22megs then freezes. The ram disk is full only a few k left in both fast and chip ram. I was wnting it to buffer to the hard drive so I can archive the whole file.

Certainly it's possible. Enter lha without arguments, then a list of possible options is printed. Among them is the option to set the working directory. I don't remember it right now.

[daxb]

Hmm... maybe I missing something but LHA shouldn`t use so much memory. In the lha.guide you can read this:

2.11 Using as little memory as possible

"When using the default settings, LhA requires about 300KB to archive, and 180KB to extract files." [...]

Do you mean you try to archive to RAM-Disk instead? If yes, you can select any target for archives.

BTW. There is a option for faster file add that is maybe useful:

-Qq (add) Quick add

Just have a look into the guide.

[Photon]

Is there any way to get lha to buffer the archived file on the hard drive instead of ram. I have 16 megs of ram, but I am trying to lha a 35 meg file. It gets to about 22megs then freezes.

Stopped when I saw the false assumption. If you have a bad lha cruncher and there is no better version, you'll have to do it on a non-Amiga. Personally, I suspect file name/file system trouble.

[source]

thanks for the replys. it looks like you can create an env file that you can set up the temp directory.

[daxb]

You can specify a work directory for temp files with the option "-w".

[source]

Thanks guys. I was even able to archive a cd image 294 meg. It took a while, but it worked.