LHARC

LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , 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.
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<compression, algorithm> A compression program developed by Rahul Dhesi. LHARC was later replaced with LHA, which produces files with extension ".lzh".
(2002-07-28)