{
 "id": "self-extracting-lha-lzh-compressed-files",
 "name": "SelF-eXtracting LHA/LZH Compressed Files",
 "category": "text",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "sfx"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1558"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q29905291"
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "SelF-eXtracting LHA/LZH Compressed File",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 3000,
      "max_offset": 700,
      "pattern": "4336342f433132382053454c462045585452414354494e47204c4841524348495645"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "SelF-eXtracting LHA/LZH compressed files is an archive format for the Commodore 64 and 128 consisting of files compressed in the LHA format and appended to a program to extract them, so that the archive and its extractor is self-contained and no other program needs to be downloaded or installed in order to extract the archive. It is a sucessor of SDA format with an addition of the extractor is cross-compatible between both Commodore platforms (C-64 and C-128).",
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1558",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1558",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q29905291",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29905291",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/SFX",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "tools": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}