[Info-mtools] GNU mtools 4.0.31 released

[Alain Knaff]

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-mtools@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