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7 | Enhancements |
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10 | * Support detection of LZMA archives by magic. |
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12 | * Interactive prompts are wrapped much more cleanly. |
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14 | Bug fixes |
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17 | * Fix a bug where dtrx would crash when extracting an archive with no |
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20 | Version 6.3 |
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23 | New features |
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26 | * Add support for RAR archives. Thanks to Peter Kelemen for the patch. |
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28 | Bug fixes |
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29 | ~~~~~~~~~ |
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31 | * Previous versions of dtrx would fail to extract certain archive types |
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32 | with the ``-v`` option specified. This has been fixed. |
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39 | ----------- | |
40 | ||
41 | New features | |
42 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
43 | ||
44 | * --one-entry option: Normally, if an archive only contains one file or | |
45 | directory with a name that doesn't match the archive's, dtrx will ask | |
46 | you how to handle it. With this option, you can specify ahead of time | |
47 | what should happen. | |
48 | ||
49 | Bug fixes | |
50 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
51 | ||
52 | * Since version 6.0, when you extracted or listed the contents of a cpio | |
53 | archive, dtrx would display a warning that simply said "1234 blocks." | |
54 | dtrx 6.2 suppresses this message. | |
55 | ||
56 | * When you try to list the contents of an archive, dtrx will now cope with | |
57 | misnamed files more gracefully, giving more accurate results and showing | |
58 | fewer error messages. | |
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60 | * dtrx 6.2 will only show you error messages from archive extraction if it | |
61 | is completely unable to extract the file. If one of its extraction | |
62 | methods succeeds, it will no longer show you the error messages from | |
63 | previous extraction attempts. | |
64 | ||
65 | * dtrx is now better about cleaning up partially extracted archives when | |
66 | it encounters an error or signal. | |
67 | ||
68 | * Users will no longer see error messages about broken pipes from dtrx. | |
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73 | New features |
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76 | * Add support for InstallShield archives, using the unshield command. |
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78 | * The wording of many of the interactive prompts has been adjusted, |
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79 | hopefully to be clearer and provide more information to the user |
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80 | immediately. |
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82 | Bug fixes |
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83 | ~~~~~~~~~ |
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85 | * dtrx 6.1 does a better job protecting against race conditions when |
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86 | extracting a single file. |
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88 | * If you used the -f option, and extracted an archive that only contained |
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89 | one file or directory, dtrx 6.0 would still prompt you to ask how it |
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90 | should be extracted. dtrx 6.1 fixes this, extracting the contents to |
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91 | the current directory as -f requires. |
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93 | * Recursive extraction would not work well in dtrx 6.0 when the contents |
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94 | of the original archive were a single file. This has been fixed in dtrx |
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99 | ||
100 | New features | |
101 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
102 | ||
103 | * When you specify -v at the command line, dtrx will display the files it | |
104 | extracts, much like tar. | |
105 | ||
106 | * When dtrx prompts you about how to handle recursive archives, you now | |
107 | have the option of listing what those archives before making a decision. | |
108 | ||
109 | * dtrx will now provide more information about why a particular extraction | |
110 | attempt failed. It will show you error messages from all the attempts | |
111 | it made, rather than only the last error it got. It will also detect | |
112 | and warn you when one of the underlying extraction tools, like | |
113 | cabextract, cannot be found. | |
114 | ||
115 | * dtrx does a better job of cleaning up after itself. It wouldn't always | |
116 | clean up temporary files after certain errors; that has been fixed. It | |
117 | also catches SIGINT and SIGTERM and cleans up before finishing | |
118 | execution. | |
119 | ||
120 | Bug fixes | |
121 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
122 | ||
123 | * Version 5.0 introduced a regression such that dtrx would not offer to | |
124 | extract recursive archives that were hidden under subdirectories. | |
125 | Version 6.0 fixes that. | |
126 | ||
127 | * dtrx would not properly extract recursive archives when the original | |
128 | archive contained a single directory. This has been fixed. | |
129 | ||
130 | Version 5.1 | |
131 | ----------- | |
132 | ||
133 | Bug fixes | |
134 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
135 | ||
136 | * Version 5.0 did not work with Python 2.3; it used a new language | |
137 | feature. This release fixes that. | |
138 | ||
139 | Version 5.0 | |
140 | ----------- | |
141 | ||
142 | New features | |
143 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
144 | ||
145 | * dtrx can now extract Ruby gems, 7z archives, and Microsoft Cabinet | |
146 | archives. It can also handle files compressed with lzma, and extract | |
147 | the metadata from Debian packages and Ruby gems. | |
148 | ||
149 | * dtrx will now use several strategies to try to figure out what kind of | |
150 | file you have, and extract it accordingly. If one doesn't work, it'll | |
151 | try something else if it can. | |
152 | ||
153 | * dtrx now displays more helpful errors when things go wrong. | |
154 | ||
155 | * Previous versions of dtrx would look at what files were included in an | |
156 | archive, and then make a decision about how to extract it. Now, it | |
157 | always extracts files to a temporary directory, and figures out what to | |
158 | do with that directory afterward. This should be slightly faster and | |
159 | nicer to the system. | |
160 | ||
161 | Version 4.0 | |
162 | ----------- | |
163 | ||
164 | New features | |
165 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
166 | ||
167 | * dtrx is now interactive. If the archive only contains one item, or | |
168 | contains other archives, dtrx will ask you how you would like to handle | |
169 | it. You can turn these questions off the the -n option. | |
170 | ||
171 | * There is a new -l option, which simply lists the archive's contents | |
172 | rather than extracting them. |