In message <4edb21b77cfreelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Fraser <freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I've got a few Spark archives that I've recently copied over to my Linux machine (Kubuntu 7.04) and found that I couldn't open them. Is there anything on Linux that will open spark files or would it be better to convert them to zip instead?
Going way back, there is a command line tool for UNIX with source code called 'nspark'. Off hand I don't know its location, but over the years when people have asked I have managed to track it down via Google etc.
You'd be better off using Zip files for new work. I think Zip has been a better format since 1992, when I proposed the extensions necessary to use it for RISC OS files.
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