A very fast archiver that is compatible with MS-DOS LhArc and LHA as well as Amiga LhArc. It is very memory efficient, stable, and reliable, and is the archiver used on Amiga Auckland's BBS. See also Arc, Archive, LhArc, and Zoo.
lha rc file is similar in all respects to an arc file, but a different method of compression was used. Programs to uncompress this type of file do not exist on as many platforms as they do for arc.
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.