[Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.17 released

[Alain Knaff]

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 <address@hidden>.


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