Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LHA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LHA to another file type
To convert LHA archives to another format, you need 7-Zip or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to LHA
To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Archive File" file type, you need software like 7-Zip or a similar tool.
About LHA files
The .LHA file is a compressed archive format developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki using the Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski (LZSS) algorithm. It served as the primary archiving standard for the Commodore Amiga platform and was heavily utilized in early bulletin board systems. Today, modern extraction tools like 7-Zip or WinRAR can still open these files. The main disadvantage of the .LHA format is total obsolescence. Modern web browsers, email clients, and default operating system tools cannot read .LHA archives. Users must download specialized software just to view the contents. Furthermore, structural confusion is common; many files with a .LHA extension are actually mislabeled ZIP or RAR files. To guarantee compatibility, you must convert these legacy archives. For general sharing and native operating system support, convert to ZIP. For maximum file size reduction, convert to 7Z. For Linux environments, convert to .TAR.GZ.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LHA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert LHA file to ADF, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE or ARJ, you can use 7-Zip or similar software from the "Legacy Compressed Archive Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG, RAR or ARJ files to LHA, try 7-Zip or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Compressed Archive Storage" category.
The LHA Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our LHA converter.