Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.31
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-4.0.31.tar.gz (529K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.31.tar.bz2 (437K) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.31.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 4.0.30 release are: - Move Linux-specific block device sizing code into Linux-specific section of devices.c - Error messages for all failure cases on fs_init - Fix compilation without XDF support (OpenImage signature) - Fix polarity of format_xdf command-line parameter of mformat - In xdf_io retry enough times to actually succeed, even if FDC was in a bad state before - Remove useless buffer flushing triggered when giving up a reference to a stream node that is still referenced elsewhere. - Clearer error message if neither size nor geometry of drive to be mformatted is known - In mformat, make Fs dynamically allocated rather than on-stack, so as to be able to use utilities supplied by stream.c - Remove duplicate writing of backup boot sector - Allow to infer geometry for mformat if only size is specified - Protect against attempt to create zero-sized buffer - Code simplification in mattrib - Remove dead code in mpartition 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.
