1 2011-08-15: atool 0.38.0 released.
2 Fix Mac OS X build time problem (reported by Dave Dribin): Don't use 'sed
3 -r' in makefiles, use 'sed' instead, etc.
4 Apply manpage typo fix patches (from Francois Marier).
5 Fixed bug preventing saved amount of data not to be printed with arepack.
6 Added -O, --format-option option for specifying archiver options.
7 Exit gracefully when specifying an unsupported formats with arepack.
8 Fix xv typo - should be xz (use_tar_xz_option etc) (from polemon).
9 Fix identification of .xpi files as zip (patch by Francois Marier,
11 Fix identification of 7zip files (patch by Bastian Kleineidam,
14 2009-08-13: atool 0.37.0 released.
15 Added support for lzip and xz (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
16 Fixed bug in arepack command with tar archives.
17 The number of bytes saved is now printed in 'repack' mode (suggested by
18 Meino Christian Cramer).
19 Don't use -U parameter (to delete original archive) for lzop.
20 Added link to ATrpms repository to home page.
21 Added support for GNU tar's --xv, --lzop, and --lzma options when the
22 corresponding atool options are enabled (use_tar_xv_option,
23 use_tar_lzop_option and use_tar_lzma_option).
24 Better checking of config file variables.
26 2009-02-26: atool 0.36.0 released.
27 Fix problem not identifying ZIP archives using file (from mollifier).
28 Fix problem with escaping characters in UTF-8 locales.
29 Don't use -r when creating rar archives, it recurses subdirs as expected
32 2008-06-08: atool 0.35.0 released.
33 Now detect self-extracting ZIP archives using file (suggested by Jens
35 Added "use_file_always" option to always identify using file (suggested
37 Now identify compressed files (bzip2, bzip, gzip, compress) when using
39 Improved error messages (from Ed Avis).
40 Fix manpage hyphens (patch from Francois Marier).
41 Added -o, --option option to change a configuration option.
42 Added support for rzip and lrzip archives.
43 Use '-c' option with compressors such as gzip and bzip2 when piping
45 Added support for pbzip2 (added configuration options path_pbzip2 and
48 2008-04-03: atool 0.34.0 released.
49 Added support for lzma (suggested by Ed Avis and Leif Thande, patch from
51 Added extra directory.
54 2007-08-22: atool 0.33.0 released.
55 Change order of arguments in tar commands.
56 Use 'f' option to tar when using archive from stdin/to stdout (by
57 reported by Shotaro Aoyama).
58 Fix configuration file bug: "use_arj_for_unpack" did not work
59 (reported by Simon Peter).
60 Minor build and documentation updates.
62 2005-12-13: atool 0.32.0 released.
63 Fixed bug in repack mode: Could not repack a compressed file into an
64 archive, but could (incorrectly) repack an archive to a compressed file
65 (reported by Meino Christian Cramer).
66 Print ellipsis properly in output ("...", not "..") (patch from Ed Avis).
67 Added support for Microsoft Cabinet archives.
68 Ignore waitpid errors on win32 (patch from Ed Avis).
70 2005-08-08: web page updated.
71 Fixed some typos in the web page and NEWS file (will be updated for next
74 2005-08-08: atool 0.31.0 released.
75 ATTENTION: This release fixes a serious bug which might cause files and
76 directories to be removed in some circumstances when using adiff. I
77 recommend upgrading to the 0.31.0 immediately. If you cannot upgrade, you
78 are safe as long as you do not use the adiff command on untrusted
80 Here are the details: Symbolic links would be followed when temporary
81 directories were removed recursively. Only the adiff command removed
82 directories in this way - the extracted files of the archives it
83 compared. This means that if you ran adiff on an archive containing a
84 symbolic link that pointed to, say, /foo, /foo would be removed
85 recursively! This was due to a missing check for symbolic links. This bug
86 was found by code auditing, and has been fixed in this release.
87 Added arepack command (also -r, --repack) (previously incomplete and
88 disabled, also suggested by Meino Christian Cramer).
89 Added support for 7-Zip'ed TAR archives (.tar.7z) (suggested by Meino
91 Implemented cat support for 7-Zip archives.
92 Completed list of supported archive types in the manual page (some were
94 Improve --simulate and --explain.
95 Added support for acat on Debian packages (patch from Peter Valdemar
97 Added support for extracting control files from Debian packages as well
98 (patch from Peter Valdemar Mørch, thanks).
99 Fixed some manual page typos.
101 2005-07-25: atool 0.30.0 released.
102 Added support for 7-Zip archives (.7z) using p7zip (suggested by Meino
104 Added support for ALZip archives (.alz) using unalz.
105 Added support for Debian package archives (.deb) files (contributed by
107 Fixed some typos in the manual page (reported by Stephane Jourdois).
108 Added file matches for LHA SFX archives.
109 Updated building of rpm and debian packages.
110 Updated documentation.
111 Got rid of year ranges in copyright.
113 2004-07-05: atool 0.29.0 released.
114 Added support for ar archive (.a) files (suggested by Wojtek Sczygiol).
115 Improved and cleaned up handling of compressed files (single file
116 archives), resulting in some bugs fixed.
117 Deal with compressed files (.gz, .bz2, ..) differently, fixing some bugs.
118 These files are now extracted to current directory.
119 Implemented new options 'decompress_to_cwd'.
121 2004-06-18: atool 0.28.0 released.
122 'make install' will now build everything before installing.
123 Use detected perl path in atool executable (reported by Ed Avis).
124 Fixed extraction of files from LHA archives (reported by Goetz Waschk and
127 2003-11-14: atool 0.27.0 released.
128 Support for autoconf has been added (based on files from Hisham Muhammad,
130 Added support for ARC files (suggested by Ed Avis).
131 Added support for using the arj command for ARJ archives (previously only
132 unarj was supported).
133 Cleaned up and improved the manual page and README document.
134 Fixed RAR identification from file(1) output.
135 Now uses tar --bzip2 option instead of -j. The use_tar_j_option has been
136 renamed to use_tar_bzip2_option (patch submitted by Ed Avis, thanks).
137 Renamed the use_rar_for_unrar option to use_rar_for_unpack (old options
139 Bumped copyright year.
140 Removed the distdiff make target.
142 2003-05-23: atool 0.26.0 released.
143 Added a new configuration option, use_rar_for_unrar (always use rar
144 instead of unrar when possible).
145 Added a new configuration option, strip_unknown_ext (strip unknown
146 extensions). Patch submitted by Götz Waschk - thanks!
147 Tried to make atool more portable by using File::Spec more.
148 Some minor bug fixes for --simulate mode.
149 Cleaned up error messages.
151 2002-11-08: atool 0.25.0 released.
152 Implemented a new option keep_compressed to control whether the original
153 file should be kept after packing/unpacking compressed files.
154 Cleaned up code for handling compressed files.
155 Now refuses to compress multiple files into one.
156 Don't pass -r option to unrar.
157 Cleaned up and simplified the code a little (remove exec argument).
158 Use unrar instead of rar when not creating RAR archives. A new option,
159 path_unrar was added. (Requested by Götz Waschk.)
160 Use cpio for archives that file(1) reports as "ASCII cpio archive".
161 Replaced 'refuse to overwrite' wording with 'refusing to overwrite'.
163 Replaced 'single-file-compressor' wording with 'file compressor'.
164 Clarified meaning of PATH value to -X option.
166 2002-10-09: atool 0.24.0 released.
167 If PAGER is set, use that for default pager instead.
168 Debian and RPM packages now include symlinks to the manpage for aunpack,
169 apack etc too. These symlinks are also installed during make install.
170 Build fixes for RPM package from Götz Waschk (thanks).
171 Don't set root:root owner when installing files in Makefile.
173 2002-09-28: atool 0.23.0 released.
174 Added new feature: If no file arguments are specified with apack,
175 filenames are read from standard in.
176 Added new option: -0, --null to specify that filenames read from standard
177 in are separated by null-bytes.
178 Fixed tab stop in --help message.
179 Exit with non-zero return code if any command failed.
180 Cleaned up code (add parens around subroutine calls) to prevent weird
183 2002-09-17: atool 0.22.0 released.
184 Fixed use_gzip_for_z configuration option name typo (was
186 New option use_find_cpio_print0 to make find use -print0 and cpio -0.
187 Added support for lzop archives.
189 2002-09-16: atool 0.21.0 released.
190 Use POSIX::getcwd instead of Cwd::cwd (fixes warnings with perl 5.8).
191 Fixed some bugs for Perl 5.005 compatibility (reported by Nicholas
193 Use sysopen instead of three argument open to open some files.
194 Use POSIX::isprint instead of /[[:print:]]/.
195 Added --subdir (-D) option to always extract to subdirectory.
197 2002-09-08: atool 0.20.0 released.
198 Added support for cpio archives.
199 Fixed bugs with --save-outdir (wouldn't save right directory), and
201 Fixed help message ("current directory" => "specified directory").
203 2002-07-13: atool 0.19.0 released.
204 Added PREFIX variable to Makefile (patch submitted by Dave Dribin).
205 Updated man page with supported archive formats.
206 Always run rar with the -r (recursive) option.
207 Documented how to make aunpack change into the directory where files were
208 extracted to (feature requested by Brian Hall).
210 2002-07-02: atool 0.18.0 released.
211 Added support for rpm archives (patch submitted by João Lourenço -
213 Added configuration option `show_extracted' to always show what file was
214 extracted. This is also the default behavior now.
215 Added adiff example to manpage.
216 Running atool on files with names beginning with <, >, +, | or other
217 similar characters could potentially have very bad effects on atool (such
218 as files disappearing). This is fixed now.
219 Updated the author's email address in the help and version messages.
220 Improved error messages by quoting all filenames mentioned.
221 No longer change mode on directories before removing them (now considered
222 to be unsafe by myself, despite the fact that I wrote the code originally
224 Atool can now be used on files with newline and delete characters in
225 their names. (As a result of this, atool now uses the POSIX perl module.)
227 2002-04-14: atool 0.17.0 released.
228 Added support for extraction of arj archives.
229 Fixed symlink creation during make install (patch from Brian Hall).
230 Fixed wording ("files in root" instead of "root files").
231 Fixed adiff on compressed files (would have no effect, and would leave an
234 2002-02-09: atool 0.16.0 released.
235 Added new option `args_diff' to control diff arguments (previously `-ru'
237 Updated wordings in the README.
238 Reformatted NEWS file. :)
239 Improved Makefile somewhat.
240 Fixed identification and some extension-related issues with LHA and RAR.
241 Added support for ace archives (extraction and listing only).
242 Mention URL for some archiver programs in the README.
244 2001-12-22: atool 0.15.0 released.
245 Fixed a minor bug that would prevent atool from extracting archives with
246 one non-writable root directory properly (reported by Matthew Mueller).
247 Added files for making RPM packages of atool.
250 2001-11-17: atool 0.14.0 released.
251 Added support for .lha archives (with lha command).
252 Fixed and improved the adiff command. (It will no longer ask before
254 Changed default path for the compress command to 'compress'.
255 Improved error messages.
256 Some very minor bug fixes.
258 2001-10-26: atool 0.13.0 released.
259 New command adiff that generates a diff between two archives.
262 2001-09-18: atool 0.12.0 released.
263 Improved error messages when the program to execute does not exist (no
265 The author has changed email-address to oskar@osk.mine.nu.
267 2001-08-13: atool 0.11.0 released.
268 Improved error messages.
269 The --each option can now be used with the add command. (This can be used
270 to create multiple archives at a time.)
272 2001-08-01: atool 0.10.0 released.
273 New option -e, --each to extract or list multiple archives in one
275 Fixed a bug causing gzip, bzip, bzip2 and compress'd files not to be
276 identified correctly.
277 Added sections `Examples' and `Known Bugs' to the manual page.
279 2001-07-16: atool 0.9.0 released.
280 Rethought the verbosity options. New options: -v, --verbose and -V,
281 --verbosity. Default verbosity level can now be set in configuration
283 Changed behaviour of apack on compressed (gzip, bzip2, ..) files (didn't
285 Now file's -z option is used to identify more formats.
286 Included more information in the manual page (about configuration etc).
287 New option --config to load a specific configuration file.
288 The temporary extraction directory is now removed on exit, if it is
290 Now refuses to overwrite existing files when creating archives.
291 Minor bug fixes, error message improvements and typo corrections.
293 2001-07-05: atool 0.8.0 released.
294 Added support for configuration files. System-wide (/etc/atool.conf) and
295 user (~/.atoolrc) configuration files are supported.
296 Added support for identifying files using file(1). See the README file
298 Symbolic links that refers to non-existant files will no longer be
299 overwritten when extracting files (these symlinks were previously
300 considered to be non-existant themselves).
301 The NEWS file is included again.
302 Added option (use_gzip_for_z) to control whether to use gzip or
303 uncompress to decompress .Z files.
304 Some minor bug fixes.
306 2001-04-16: atool 0.7.0 released.
307 Fixed all commands for tar archives (output would be written to stdout
308 and input read from stdin by default),
309 When extracting tar.Z archives, extension wouldn't be removed from output
310 directory. This has been fixed now.
311 Manual format (with --format) wouldn't work at all. This is fixed now.
312 Added -F as an alias for --format.
313 Recognize .war as a JAR archive.
315 2001-04-04: atool 0.6.0 released.
316 Added this NEWS document.
317 Complete rewrite resulting in cleaner and better code.
318 Added support for rar archives.
319 Added support for .Z (compress) compressed files and .tar.Z archives.
320 New option "-p, --page", to send output through pager.
321 New option "-E, --explain" to have atool explain what is being done.
322 New option "-S, --simulate" to have atool simulate commands.
323 Changed "-X, --extract-here" command to "-X, --extract-to" that requires
325 The temporary extraction directory is now named "Unpack-XXXX", instead of
327 Added configuration options for setting path of programs to use.
328 Added configuration options for controlling name of temporary extraction
330 Implemented a command line generation engine so that /bin/sh is used only
334 2001-03-28: atool 0.5.0 released.
335 Rereleased with new version number (0.3.0 was released as 0.4.0 on
338 2001-03-27: atool 0.4.0 released.
339 Added forward function declarations to fix "X called to early to check
340 prototype" messages generated by Perl 5.6.
341 Added files for making Debian packages of atool.
342 Fixed help text for -X command.
343 Added prototypes for functions without them.
344 Added manpage for atool.
345 Added more license text from COPYING to the atool source and README file.
347 2001-03-24: atool 0.3.0 released.
348 Fixed "Use of uninitialized value" messages when extracting from
350 Added support for jar archives, and use_jar_program configuration
352 The "-q, --quiet" option is now listed in help message.
353 Configuration variables are now better documented in the README.
354 Some cleanup of the atool code.
355 Use exec instead of system where possible.
357 2001-03-21: atool 0.2.0 released.
358 Now creates temporary extraction directory only when necessary.
359 Display a message when list command is run on compressed files.
361 2001-03-17: atool 0.1.0 released.
362 First public release.