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jlha

jlha-utils(1)						      General Commands Manual						     jlha-utils(1)

NAME

       jlha --	lzh decompressor/compressor

SYNOPSIS

       jlha [[-]{axelvudmcp[q[num]][vnfodizg012]}[w=<dir>]]  [archive_file]  [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page documents briefly the jlha commands.	This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original pro-
       gram does not have a manual page.

       jlha is a program extracts or creates LZH archive files.

COMMANDS AND OPTIONS

       commands:

       a	 Add files to archive

       xe	 EXtract files from archive

       l	 List files from archive

       v	 Verbose list files from archive

       u	 Update files to archive

       d	 Delete files from archive

       m	 Move files to archive

       c	 Create archive

       p	 Print archive to stdout

       t	 Test the integrity of an archive

       options:

       q	 quiet output

       v	 verbose output

       f	 force overwrite existing files

       t	 FILES are TEXT files

       o[567]	 Change LHA compression algorithm

       w=<dir>	 specify working directory. only works for (e/x)

       d	 delete files after executing commands. only works for (a/u/c)

       i	 ignore path. only works for (e/x)

       z	 do not compress files (a/u)

       0/1/2	 change header level (a/u)

       e	 convert text file encoding from/to EUC-JP

       y	 convert filename from Shift-JIS

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  This man-
       ual page is in public domain and is freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by any-
       one for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

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