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| DATE | 2021-06-17 |
| FROM | Alain Knaff
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] GNU mtools 4.0.30 released
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Hello,
I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.30
GNU mtools is available for download from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools and the mirror sites worldwide (see
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for the list of those).
The sources can be obtained from ftp.gnu.org and its world-wide mirrors:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.30.tar.gz (527K)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.30.tar.bz2 (433K)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.30.tar.lz (373K)
The same directory also contains pre-compiled Debian packages.
Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU
and Unix without mounting them, to change FAT-specific file attributes
(hidden, archive, system), and to format FAT media.
Mtools supports W32 style long file names, FAT32, OS/2 Xdf disks and
2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools also
includes mpartition, a simple partitioning programing. It is also a
convenient tool to work with disk image files (thanks to the -i flag).
For more information on mtools, including links to file downloads,
please see the mtools web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools
Please email bugs or suggestions to .
Improvements since the 4.0.29 release are:
- Fixed XDF floppy disk access
- Fixed faulty behavior at end of image in mcat
- Device/Image size handling refactoring
- allow remap to write to zero-backed sectors (may happen if
buffer is flushed, and is not an error in that case)
- Raise an error when trying to mcopy multiple source files
over a single destination file (rather than directory)
- fix handling of "hidden" sectors (is a 2 byte quantity on
small disks, not 4 byte as previously assumed)
- Modernize partition support. Tuned consistency check to
actually check about important issues (such as overlapping
partitions) rather than stuff nobody else cares about
(alignment on entire cylinder boundaries)
- Move various "filter" options (partition, offset, swap,
scsi) into separate classes, rather than leaving almost
everything in plain_io
- Simplify and centralize geometry handling and LBA code
- Fix some more more compiler warnings
Regards,
Alain
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