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75 | ----------- | |
76 | ||
77 | New features | |
78 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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80 | * --one-entry option: Normally, if an archive only contains one file or | |
81 | directory with a name that doesn't match the archive's, dtrx will ask | |
82 | you how to handle it. With this option, you can specify ahead of time | |
83 | what should happen. | |
84 | ||
85 | Bug fixes | |
86 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
87 | ||
88 | * Since version 6.0, when you extracted or listed the contents of a cpio | |
89 | archive, dtrx would display a warning that simply said "1234 blocks." | |
90 | dtrx 6.2 suppresses this message. | |
91 | ||
92 | * When you try to list the contents of an archive, dtrx will now cope with | |
93 | misnamed files more gracefully, giving more accurate results and showing | |
94 | fewer error messages. | |
95 | ||
96 | * dtrx 6.2 will only show you error messages from archive extraction if it | |
97 | is completely unable to extract the file. If one of its extraction | |
98 | methods succeeds, it will no longer show you the error messages from | |
99 | previous extraction attempts. | |
100 | ||
101 | * dtrx is now better about cleaning up partially extracted archives when | |
102 | it encounters an error or signal. | |
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104 | * Users will no longer see error messages about broken pipes from dtrx. | |
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135 | ||
136 | New features | |
137 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
138 | ||
139 | * When you specify -v at the command line, dtrx will display the files it | |
140 | extracts, much like tar. | |
141 | ||
142 | * When dtrx prompts you about how to handle recursive archives, you now | |
143 | have the option of listing what those archives before making a decision. | |
144 | ||
145 | * dtrx will now provide more information about why a particular extraction | |
146 | attempt failed. It will show you error messages from all the attempts | |
147 | it made, rather than only the last error it got. It will also detect | |
148 | and warn you when one of the underlying extraction tools, like | |
149 | cabextract, cannot be found. | |
150 | ||
151 | * dtrx does a better job of cleaning up after itself. It wouldn't always | |
152 | clean up temporary files after certain errors; that has been fixed. It | |
153 | also catches SIGINT and SIGTERM and cleans up before finishing | |
154 | execution. | |
155 | ||
156 | Bug fixes | |
157 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
158 | ||
159 | * Version 5.0 introduced a regression such that dtrx would not offer to | |
160 | extract recursive archives that were hidden under subdirectories. | |
161 | Version 6.0 fixes that. | |
162 | ||
163 | * dtrx would not properly extract recursive archives when the original | |
164 | archive contained a single directory. This has been fixed. | |
165 | ||
166 | Version 5.1 | |
167 | ----------- | |
168 | ||
169 | Bug fixes | |
170 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
171 | ||
172 | * Version 5.0 did not work with Python 2.3; it used a new language | |
173 | feature. This release fixes that. | |
174 | ||
175 | Version 5.0 | |
176 | ----------- | |
177 | ||
178 | New features | |
179 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
180 | ||
181 | * dtrx can now extract Ruby gems, 7z archives, and Microsoft Cabinet | |
182 | archives. It can also handle files compressed with lzma, and extract | |
183 | the metadata from Debian packages and Ruby gems. | |
184 | ||
185 | * dtrx will now use several strategies to try to figure out what kind of | |
186 | file you have, and extract it accordingly. If one doesn't work, it'll | |
187 | try something else if it can. | |
188 | ||
189 | * dtrx now displays more helpful errors when things go wrong. | |
190 | ||
191 | * Previous versions of dtrx would look at what files were included in an | |
192 | archive, and then make a decision about how to extract it. Now, it | |
193 | always extracts files to a temporary directory, and figures out what to | |
194 | do with that directory afterward. This should be slightly faster and | |
195 | nicer to the system. | |
196 | ||
197 | Version 4.0 | |
198 | ----------- | |
199 | ||
200 | New features | |
201 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
202 | ||
203 | * dtrx is now interactive. If the archive only contains one item, or | |
204 | contains other archives, dtrx will ask you how you would like to handle | |
205 | it. You can turn these questions off the the -n option. | |
206 | ||
207 | * There is a new -l option, which simply lists the archive's contents | |
208 | rather than extracting them. |