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| DATE | 2021-06-19 |
| FROM | Alain Knaff
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] GNU mtools 4.0.31 released
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Hello,
I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.31
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-4.0.31.tar.gz (529K)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.31.tar.bz2 (437K)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.31.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 4.0.30 release are:
- Move Linux-specific block device sizing code into
Linux-specific section of devices.c
- Error messages for all failure cases on fs_init
- Fix compilation without XDF support (OpenImage signature)
- Fix polarity of format_xdf command-line parameter of mformat
- In xdf_io retry enough times to actually succeed, even if
FDC was in a bad state before
- Remove useless buffer flushing triggered when giving up a
reference to a stream node that is still referenced
elsewhere.
- Clearer error message if neither size nor geometry of drive
to be mformatted is known
- In mformat, make Fs dynamically allocated rather than
on-stack, so as to be able to use utilities supplied by
stream.c
- Remove duplicate writing of backup boot sector
- Allow to infer geometry for mformat if only size is specified
- Protect against attempt to create zero-sized buffer
- Code simplification in mattrib
- Remove dead code in mpartition
Regards,
Alain
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