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[gnu.announce] Mtools-3.6 - use MS-DOS disks without mounting them
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 19 02:58:30 1997
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:58:28 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
It looks like there's some stuff in the newest version of mtools to
set up Zip disks which could be relevant if someone has an unformatted
zip disk and wants to format it on a Solaris machine.
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From: Alain Knaff <alknaff@hal.local.host>
Subject: Mtools-3.6 - use MS-DOS disks without mounting them
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:20:50 +0200
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I would like to announce a new release of mtools, a collection of
utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them.
Mtools supports Win'95 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 to setup
Zip and Jaz media on non-PC machines (SunOs, Solaris and HP/UX).
Mtools can currently be found at the following places:
http://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools
http://www.club.innet.lu/~year3160/mtools
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
and soon at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/mtools-3.6.tar.gz
(will be moved to ftp://pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/mtools-3.6.tar.gz)
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/mtools-3.6.tar.gz
There is an mtools mailing list at mtools@linux.wauug.org. To
subscribe to it, send a message containing 'subscribe mtools' in its
body to majordomo@linux.wauug.org. Mailing list archives are at
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Before submitting a bug report, check whether your problem has not
yet been fixed in one of the Alpha patches at:
http://www.club.innet.lu/~year3160/mtools or
http://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools
Mtools-3.6 includes the following new features:
* Mzip -e now only ejects Zip disks when they are not mounted.
* Mzip now has a manpage
* Mzip now detects bad passwords and prints an error message
* Better interoperability with dosemu
* Various portability fixes for AIX, A/UX, HP/UX, BEOS and SunOS4
The following features of mtools 3.6 already existed in mtools
starting from 2.5.4, but not in mtools 2.0.7 (distributed with
Slackware and other Linux 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 boot sector, 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 several sources to get its drive geometry
configuration from: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools.conf, 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.
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