[iyonix-support] Re: Error from SparkFS with ROOL tar files

In article <b0d3cb9f4f.jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   rickman <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The WELCOME/TXT file on the ROOL CD says:

> "....SparkFS is recommended for unpacking the archives on
> a RISC OS machine. Copy the files to your hard disc before trying
> to extract the contents...."

> However, attempts to unpack TAR files with SparkFS give rise to a 
> message like the following:-

> " Error when reading
> "...BATCHONE/TAR-
> " -Unidentified header type found

> Can anyone help please?  My SparkFS is version 1.39 Read Only

I think the read-only version is supplied with just Spark and Zip
modules. The full version also has ARJ, Cab, CPIO, Lzh, McStuffit,
PackdDir, Zoo and Tar.

Ian

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