[comp.sys.acorn] !SparkPlug 2.11 - at long last, something PD to handle Spark 2 archives

rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (01/28/91)

Many thanks for posting SparkPlug 2.11 - the backgrounding of the unpacking
is clever, but got me confused when the application icon for the unpacked
program appeared immediately, but the unpacking continued for a minute or
so afterwards ! Perhaps the icon could have been the same "busy" one that
the icon bar icon displays whilst backgrounding unpacking is in progress.

A couple of notes for people downloading SparkPlug 2.11:

1. Create a new directory called !SparkPlug, open it in the Desktop and
   drag the "IBM format" archive files into the newly opened !SparkPlug
   window [this assumes you have some form of Spark in the first place -
   command-line Arc users will know what to do anyway :-)]

2. *SetType !SparkPlug.ExecMe! Obey
   This is because IBM format archives all extract as Data files. Finally,
   double-click on the ExecMe! File.

!SparkPlug 2.11 is quite neat and seems to solve all the binary postings
problems in one fell swoop. I vote a big *yes* to using it for extracting
binaries in the forthcoming comp.binaries.acorn newsgroup... Of course,
submitters will still need Spark 2 to create the stuff in the first place :-)

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