On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +0000, Raf wrote: > Hi. > > This is a tad off topic and rather than just mail Dave, I figured that I'd > see if anyone out there can guide on what I'm doing wrong. > > I've got an Acorn A4 on my desk and have just copied some ArcFS .arc files > from my box onto the A4 via a 1.44 dos floppy.
Gah. ArcFS. I do not like ArcFS. OK. Rant over. > K? Now, I want to unsparc these, however they aren't set to the correct > file type. > > I've changed the file type to 111, however this doesn't appear to be the > correct type and I'm not having any luck here. > > Does anyone know of a good way by which I can get at these files? When you say "unspark" do you literally mean you have a copy of !Spark or !Sparkplug? Or do you just me uncompress or access them? Either way, I think the filetype shouldn't matter - run !Spark or !Sparkplug or !SparkFS or !ArcFS (whichever you have) and drag the file to the icon on the icon bar. I believe that all share the same behaviour - if they recognise the file (ie is it not corrupt) they will set the type correctly and then "open" it. (For the relevant definition of open) You might want to compile nspark (google says http://freshmeat.net/projects/nspark/?topic_id=19%2C42 which in turn links to http://www.arcturus.demon.co.uk/ftp/developers.nspark.html ) as you can then extract them on Unix/whatever. Nicholas Clark
