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LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by Haruyasu Yoshizaki (吉崎栄泰, Yoshizaki Haruyasu), and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named LHx, was eventually released as LH. It was then renamed to LHA to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 LH ("load high") command.

Although no longer much used in the West, LHA remains popular in Japan. It was used by id Software to compress installation files for their earlier games, such as Doom. LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is the main archiving format on Amiga computers. This is due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg's implementation of LHA on the Amiga.

Filename extension

.lzh (all systems)
.lha (Amiga
)

MIME-Type

application/x-lzh-compressed

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