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 <info-mto...@gnu.org>. 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 -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.