LZH File Documentation

Overview

Feature Value
File Extension .lzh or .lha
Format Type Archive
Compression Algorithm Lempel-Ziv-Huffman (LZH)
Developed By Yoshiaki Shibata
Initial Release Date 1988
MIME Type application/x-lzh-compressed
Supports Encryption No
Supports Multiple Files Yes
Compression Ratio Varies Depending on Data
Popular Usage Old Archives, especially in Japan
Supported on Various operating systems
File Signature -lh5-, -lh6-, -lh7-, etc.
Multi-volume Archives Supported
Character Encoding ASCII
Maximum File Size Depends on the implementation
Open Source Varies by implementation
Self-extracting Archives Supported by some implementations
Used in Operating Systems MS-DOS, Windows, Unix-like systems
Utilities for Creating/Extracting LHA for UNIX, WinRAR, 7-Zip
Popularity Declined in favor of more modern formats