> LZX had supplanted LHA already by 1994. Firstly - no it didn't. Sorry for nitpicking the nitpick, but the first public release of LZX was February 5, 1995.

> LZX had supplanted LHA already by 1994. Firstly - no it didn't. Sorry for nitpicking the nitpick, but the first public release of LZX was February 5, 1995. Secondly, "LZX supplanted LHA" is an opinion with varying levels of support. LZX did take the Amiga community by storm, with its higher compression ratios, solid archiving and built-in support for unpacking LhA files, faster than LhA could. Many people started recompressing their archives with LZX... but also many people didn't. Some Amiga magazine coverdisks (e.g. AUI) started using DiskSpare and LZX to get as much on a disk as possible... others stuck with normal disks and LHA. The majority of Amiga software archives are on Aminet, which is still getting uploads today. Aminet standardized on LhA, not LZX. Just as a random non-Aminet example, the WHDLoad homepage offers you its software in either LHA or LZX format, your choice. Wouldn't it be LZX only by now if LZX supplanted LHA in 1994? What the OP said rings true; LhA files are ubiquitous on the Amiga, and also it's possible to portably unpack and create them on other systems. LZX is very popular, but I wouldn't personally say it supplanted LHA, even though I have hundreds of LZX archives.