deco is a generic archive file extractor that hasa consistent command line interface ("deco1.tar.bz2 2.zip 3.flac 4.rar 5.deb" will justwork) and consistent behavior (it never deletesarchives after extraction, extracts relative tothe current working directory, and extracts justverbosely enough, all unless explicitly requestedotherwise). It provides automatic handling ofextractor gotchas by creating an extractiondirectory if there is more than one file ordirectory at the archive top level and by beingable to fix strange permissions. Dozens of archive fileextensions are supported out of the box, andadding support for others requires very littlework.License: GNU General Public License v3Changes:
deco's core, previously a shell script, has beenrewritten in C, decreasing time overhead fivefold.The new extractor wrapper format also makes someof the wrapper shell code much nicer. (For updateinstructions, see the README file.) This iscompatible with BSD make. The documentation wasslightly polished.

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