.LZH File

File extension lzh is used for LHA/LZH Compressed Archive File.

A compression format which started on the Amiga but has migrated to other platforms. The various programs base their algorithms on those developed by Lempel-Ziv.

Files compressed with LHA typically have the extension .lzh but variations abound (lhw, lzs, lzw). LHA was created by Haruyasu Yoshizaki.

It uses the same lz77 algorithm as GZip with a tree data structure plus block-by-block secondary status Huffman coding.

MIME types:
application/octet-stream
application/x-lzh
application/lzh
application/x-lha
application/x-compress
application/x-compressed
application/x-lzh-archive
zz-application/zz-winassoc-lzh
application/maclha

How to open:

Many current archivers can work with LZH format.

How to convert:

You can repack LZH format to different archive format with most current archivers, such as WinRAR or 7-Zip.