[Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.30 released

[Alain Knaff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.30

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-4.0.30.tar.gz    (527K)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.30.tar.bz2   (433K)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.30.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-mtools@gnu.org>.

Improvements since the 4.0.29 release are:
        - Fixed XDF floppy disk access
        - Fixed faulty behavior at end of image in mcat
        - Device/Image size handling refactoring
        - allow remap to write to zero-backed sectors (may happen if
          buffer is flushed, and is not an error in that case)
        - Raise an error when trying to mcopy multiple source files
          over a single destination file (rather than directory)
        - fix handling of "hidden" sectors (is a 2 byte quantity on
          small disks, not 4 byte as previously assumed)
        - Modernize partition support. Tuned consistency check to
          actually check about important issues (such as overlapping
          partitions) rather than stuff nobody else cares about
          (alignment on entire cylinder boundaries)
        - Move various "filter" options (partition, offset, swap,
          scsi) into separate classes, rather than leaving almost
          everything in plain_io
        - Simplify and centralize geometry handling and LBA code
        - Fix some more more compiler warnings

Regards,

Alain