[Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.13 released

[Alain Knaff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.13.

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-4.0.13.tar.gz    (477K)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.13.tar.bz2   (374K)

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 <address@hidden>.


Improvements since the 4.0.11 release are:

* Mingw compatibility fixes
* Merged Debian patches:
  - added missing byte-swap flag initialization in plain_io
  - manpages for lz, uz, tgz, mcomp and mxtar
  - spelling fixes fixes in doc
  - automatically patch right config file location into doc
  - removed .iX tag, and replaced .lp with .PP
  - removed obsolete -m486 compilation flag
  - switched over to new SG_IO SCSI API on Linux
  - fixed overlong filename detection

Regards,

Alain