Like other archive sites, this directory is maintained tree-like
directory structure. Use this entry
point for exploration. Basic information of ftp and handling
archive files are described in FYI-24.
This page is pointing out difference from above information.
Espacially in Japan, most popular archiver soft is LHA, written originally for MS-DOS by Yoshi. LHA is ported for most environment -- Unix, Macintosh, Windows and so on. Please find out suitable for your environment from Ring server, and source code is also available. LHA HomePage is also opened, and english version can be obtained.
For rapid use, extract operation is the following;
A:\>LHA x [filename(.lzh)]
This extract command is keeping the structure of the archive. If you are afraid for this;
A:\>LHA e [filename(.lzh)]
for extraction in the current directory.
For obtaining list of archive, use;
A:\>LHA l [filename(.lzh)] simple mode. A:\>LHA v [filename(.lzh)] verbose mode.
I am searching where is complete LHA documentation in the Internet. :-)
ISH, written by Ishizuka, is also commonly used Character converter like uucode. The advantage of ISH is strong error correction by itself to prevent re-sending of encoded text depends on line condition.
ISH has complete english documentation in itself, see in the archive.