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Use string.rindex (which is in Python 2.3) instead of my own version.

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10 * When you list archive contents with -l or -t, dtrx will start printing
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11 results much faster than it used to. There's a small chance that it
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12 will print some incorrect listings if it misdetects the archive type of
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13 a given file, but it will show you an error message when that happens.
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15 Bug fixes
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18 * When extracting an archive that contained a file with a mismatched
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19 filename, the prompt would offer you a chance to "rename the directory"
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20 instead of "rename the file." This wording has been fixed, along with
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21 some other wording adjustments in the prompts generally.
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23 * Perform more reliable detection of the terminal size, and improve word
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26 Version 6.4
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29 Enhancements
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30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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32 * Support detection of LZMA archives by magic.
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34 * Interactive prompts are wrapped much more cleanly.
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36 Bug fixes
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37 ~~~~~~~~~
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39 * Fix a bug where dtrx would crash when extracting an archive with no
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42 Version 6.3
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43 -----------
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45 New features
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46 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48 * Add support for RAR archives. Thanks to Peter Kelemen for the patch.
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50 Bug fixes
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53 * Previous versions of dtrx would fail to extract certain archive types
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54 with the ``-v`` option specified. This has been fixed.
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60 Version 6.2
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61 -----------
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63 New features
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64 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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66 * --one-entry option: Normally, if an archive only contains one file or
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67 directory with a name that doesn't match the archive's, dtrx will ask
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68 you how to handle it. With this option, you can specify ahead of time
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74 * Since version 6.0, when you extracted or listed the contents of a cpio
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75 archive, dtrx would display a warning that simply said "1234 blocks."
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78 * When you try to list the contents of an archive, dtrx will now cope with
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83 is completely unable to extract the file. If one of its extraction
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84 methods succeeds, it will no longer show you the error messages from
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85 previous extraction attempts.
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98 * Add support for InstallShield archives, using the unshield command.
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100 * The wording of many of the interactive prompts has been adjusted,
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107 * dtrx 6.1 does a better job protecting against race conditions when
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108 extracting a single file.
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110 * If you used the -f option, and extracted an archive that only contained
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112 should be extracted. dtrx 6.1 fixes this, extracting the contents to
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125 * When you specify -v at the command line, dtrx will display the files it
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128 * When dtrx prompts you about how to handle recursive archives, you now
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131 * dtrx will now provide more information about why a particular extraction
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132 attempt failed. It will show you error messages from all the attempts
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133 it made, rather than only the last error it got. It will also detect
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137 * dtrx does a better job of cleaning up after itself. It wouldn't always
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138 clean up temporary files after certain errors; that has been fixed. It
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139 also catches SIGINT and SIGTERM and cleans up before finishing
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145 * Version 5.0 introduced a regression such that dtrx would not offer to
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147 Version 6.0 fixes that.
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149 * dtrx would not properly extract recursive archives when the original
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150 archive contained a single directory. This has been fixed.
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167 * dtrx can now extract Ruby gems, 7z archives, and Microsoft Cabinet
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168 archives. It can also handle files compressed with lzma, and extract
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169 the metadata from Debian packages and Ruby gems.
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171 * dtrx will now use several strategies to try to figure out what kind of
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172 file you have, and extract it accordingly. If one doesn't work, it'll
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173 try something else if it can.
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178 archive, and then make a decision about how to extract it. Now, it
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179 always extracts files to a temporary directory, and figures out what to
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180 do with that directory afterward. This should be slightly faster and
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190 contains other archives, dtrx will ask you how you would like to handle
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191 it. You can turn these questions off the the -n option.
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