Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.17.
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-4.0.17.tar.gz (510K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.17.tar.bz2 (403K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.17.tar.lz (341K) 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 4.0.16 release are: * mbadblocks now takes a list of bad blocks (either as sectors or as clusters) * mbadblocks now is able to do write scanning for bad blocks * mshowfat can show cluster of specific offset * Enable mtools to deal with very small sector sizes... * Deal with possibility of a NULL pointer being returned by localtime during timestamp conversion * Consider every directory entry after an ENDMARK (0x00) to be deleted * After writing a new entry at end of a directory, be sure to also add an ENDMARK (0x00) * Fixed encoding of all-lowercase names (no need to mangle * these) Regards, Alain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
