[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS question

  • From: Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:10:46 +0100

In article <540D8F14.3040201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,

> You can of course try, and why not. However I doubt you will find 
> something that will unpack an encrypted Spark archive.

> For one thing you need to find a program that will unpack Spark archives 
> - they do exist but are rare. Second they have to have bothered to 
> handle the encryption, which is not documented, so anyone doing it will 
> have had to work extra hard.

> Probably someone living in Cheltenham knows...

I've just realised after reading the above they were originally created as
a SparkFS Spark File so that they could be password encrypted, then
re-suffixed as zip.
Never managed to fathom out how to do the same making a zip file.

Dave

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