Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.14.
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 signed sources can be obtained from ftp.gnu.org and its world-wide mirrors: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.14.tar.gz (480K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.14.tar.bz2 (376K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.14.tar.lz (321K) The same directory also contains pre-compiled Debian and RPM 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). Since version 4.0.0 mtools now has full support for Unicode filenames. 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 4.0.13 release are: * Added utility (mshortname) to display short name equivalents of long names * Fixed backup bootsector writing in mtools and mformat, which confused partitionmanager (... and presumably other software as well) * Fixed mlabel serial number signedness bug * Fixed buffer size issue in mlabel * in scripts, quote filename parameters * Added lzip support (uz script, and packaging) * added tot_sectors (-T) option to mformat * fixed hidden sector handling in mformat * cleanup of configure script (drop pointless linker flags) * fixed floppyd for large-sized USB disks Regards, Alain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
