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Mtools 2.5.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 19:16:04 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:54:23 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: Alain.Knaff@imag.fr
Subject: Mtools 2.5.4
From: Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr>
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I have uploaded mtools-2.5.4 to sunsite and ftp.imag.fr. Mtools is a
collection of utilities to access msdos disks from Unix without
mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf
disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk).
Mtools also runs on other Unices (without Xdf and 2m support, but
with VFAT support).
At sunsite, the mtools is now in Incoming/mtools-2.5.4.src.tar.gz and
will soon be moved to /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management. At
ftp.imag.fr, it is in in pub/Linux/ZLIBC/mtools
The following features of mtools 2.5.4 already existed in mtools
2.0.7ter (distributed with fdutils-4.1), but not in mtools 2.0.7
(distributed with Slackware and other distributions):
1) Support for variable sector sizes.
2) Support for Ciriaco Garcia's "2m" formats.
3) Support for formatting disks with 16-bit fats (hard disk
partitions for instance)
4) Support for formatting ED disks (Their capacity is too big to
use a 12 bit FAT and 1 sector clusters. It either uses bigger
clusters or a 16 bit FAT)
5) Automatically configures the correct disk geometry.
6) New mmount command. Reads the bootsector, sets the geometry
and finally mounts the disk.
7) It is now possible to copy files to/from stdout/stdin:
mcopy a:test - and mcopy - a:test. This is useful for piping
and for scripts.
8) Mtools now tries 3 sources to get its drive geometry
configuration from: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools, and
finally compiled-in.
9) Fat checking code is now optional. This allows to read old
Atari disks and other weird formats.
10) Support for Dos and Atari serial numbers.
Alain
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