LHA

LHA definition - computer

A popular freeware compression program developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki that uses a variant of the LZW (LZ77) dictionary method followed by a Huffman coding stage. It runs on PCs, Unix and other platforms as its source code is also free. LHA performs compression and decompression and creates self-extracting executables.



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