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7 | New features |
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10 | * Add support for RAR archives. Thanks to Peter Kelemen for the patch. |
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12 | Bug fixes |
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15 | * Previous versions of dtrx would fail to extract certain archive types |
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19 | very old version of Python, to avoid deprecation warnings under Python |
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23 | ----------- | |
24 | ||
25 | New features | |
26 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
27 | ||
28 | * --one-entry option: Normally, if an archive only contains one file or | |
29 | directory with a name that doesn't match the archive's, dtrx will ask | |
30 | you how to handle it. With this option, you can specify ahead of time | |
31 | what should happen. | |
32 | ||
33 | Bug fixes | |
34 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
35 | ||
36 | * Since version 6.0, when you extracted or listed the contents of a cpio | |
37 | archive, dtrx would display a warning that simply said "1234 blocks." | |
38 | dtrx 6.2 suppresses this message. | |
39 | ||
40 | * When you try to list the contents of an archive, dtrx will now cope with | |
41 | misnamed files more gracefully, giving more accurate results and showing | |
42 | fewer error messages. | |
43 | ||
44 | * dtrx 6.2 will only show you error messages from archive extraction if it | |
45 | is completely unable to extract the file. If one of its extraction | |
46 | methods succeeds, it will no longer show you the error messages from | |
47 | previous extraction attempts. | |
48 | ||
49 | * dtrx is now better about cleaning up partially extracted archives when | |
50 | it encounters an error or signal. | |
51 | ||
52 | * Users will no longer see error messages about broken pipes from dtrx. | |
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54 | Version 6.1 |
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57 | New features |
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58 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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60 | * Add support for InstallShield archives, using the unshield command. |
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62 | * The wording of many of the interactive prompts has been adjusted, |
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63 | hopefully to be clearer and provide more information to the user |
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64 | immediately. |
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66 | Bug fixes |
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67 | ~~~~~~~~~ |
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69 | * dtrx 6.1 does a better job protecting against race conditions when |
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70 | extracting a single file. |
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72 | * If you used the -f option, and extracted an archive that only contained |
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78 | of the original archive were a single file. This has been fixed in dtrx |
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82 | ----------- | |
83 | ||
84 | New features | |
85 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
86 | ||
87 | * When you specify -v at the command line, dtrx will display the files it | |
88 | extracts, much like tar. | |
89 | ||
90 | * When dtrx prompts you about how to handle recursive archives, you now | |
91 | have the option of listing what those archives before making a decision. | |
92 | ||
93 | * dtrx will now provide more information about why a particular extraction | |
94 | attempt failed. It will show you error messages from all the attempts | |
95 | it made, rather than only the last error it got. It will also detect | |
96 | and warn you when one of the underlying extraction tools, like | |
97 | cabextract, cannot be found. | |
98 | ||
99 | * dtrx does a better job of cleaning up after itself. It wouldn't always | |
100 | clean up temporary files after certain errors; that has been fixed. It | |
101 | also catches SIGINT and SIGTERM and cleans up before finishing | |
102 | execution. | |
103 | ||
104 | Bug fixes | |
105 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
106 | ||
107 | * Version 5.0 introduced a regression such that dtrx would not offer to | |
108 | extract recursive archives that were hidden under subdirectories. | |
109 | Version 6.0 fixes that. | |
110 | ||
111 | * dtrx would not properly extract recursive archives when the original | |
112 | archive contained a single directory. This has been fixed. | |
113 | ||
114 | Version 5.1 | |
115 | ----------- | |
116 | ||
117 | Bug fixes | |
118 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
119 | ||
120 | * Version 5.0 did not work with Python 2.3; it used a new language | |
121 | feature. This release fixes that. | |
122 | ||
123 | Version 5.0 | |
124 | ----------- | |
125 | ||
126 | New features | |
127 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
128 | ||
129 | * dtrx can now extract Ruby gems, 7z archives, and Microsoft Cabinet | |
130 | archives. It can also handle files compressed with lzma, and extract | |
131 | the metadata from Debian packages and Ruby gems. | |
132 | ||
133 | * dtrx will now use several strategies to try to figure out what kind of | |
134 | file you have, and extract it accordingly. If one doesn't work, it'll | |
135 | try something else if it can. | |
136 | ||
137 | * dtrx now displays more helpful errors when things go wrong. | |
138 | ||
139 | * Previous versions of dtrx would look at what files were included in an | |
140 | archive, and then make a decision about how to extract it. Now, it | |
141 | always extracts files to a temporary directory, and figures out what to | |
142 | do with that directory afterward. This should be slightly faster and | |
143 | nicer to the system. | |
144 | ||
145 | Version 4.0 | |
146 | ----------- | |
147 | ||
148 | New features | |
149 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
150 | ||
151 | * dtrx is now interactive. If the archive only contains one item, or | |
152 | contains other archives, dtrx will ask you how you would like to handle | |
153 | it. You can turn these questions off the the -n option. | |
154 | ||
155 | * There is a new -l option, which simply lists the archive's contents | |
156 | rather than extracting them. |