GNU mtools 4.0.32 released

Alain Knaff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.fsf.announce
Message-ID <93c73994-4fc1-ab8e-4c15-5c8a01dedd3e__27435.911975202$1625925759$gmane$org@knaff.lu>
Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.32

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-4.0.32.tar.gz    (516K)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.32.tar.bz2   (427K)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.32.tar.lz    (372K)

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 <[email protected]>.

Improvements since the 4.0.31 release are:
	- Simplify algorithm that chooses filesystem parameters for
	  format, and align it more closely with what Win7 does
	- Fix mformatting XDF when XDF not explicitly specified on
	  mformat command line
	- easier way to enter sizes on mformat command line
	  (mformat -C -T 1440K)
	- For small sizes, mformat assumes floppy geometries (heads 1 or
	  2, tracks 40 or 80)
	- Handle attempts to mformat too small filesystems more
	  gracefully
	- Enable minfo to print out additional mformat command line
	  parameters, if the present filesystem uses non-default
	  values for these
	- minfo no longer prints bigsect if smallsect is set
	- for remap filter, error when trying to write non-zero data
	  to unmapped sectors
	- Fix misc compilation warnings occurring when disabling
	  certain features (largefiles, raw-term)

Regards,

Alain

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