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231 lines
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[See Changelog for more recent changes]
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2.5.1 29 Aug 1995
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Bug fixes to allow compiling and running on SINIX-D 5.41, thanks to
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Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>.
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2.5 21 Aug 1995
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First public Alpha Test release of the newly rewritten Mtools.
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Summary of the many major changes:
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XDF support, ANSIfication, major restructuring, and debugging (Alain Knaff)
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VFAT support, new prompts for overwrites, and debugging (David Niemi)
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Patch #7alk ... 4 Dec 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) mbadblocks program to mark bad blocks
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2) uses fat_type field of boot block to find out the number
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of fat bits.
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3) is able to format hard disk partitions (untested)
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4) sets _all_ standard fields in boot sector, even without 2m mode.
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5) adds boot code to the boot sector (which transfers booting to
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the hard drive. In most cases, that's what the user wants.)
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Patch #7alk ... 4 Nov 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) Use even disk buffer size whenever possible to workaround a
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bug in Linux blockdev code [???]
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2) Clearer error message on failed sanity check
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3) Removal of BOGUS Notes file
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Patch #7alk quinter, 2 Nov 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) O_EXCL flag when opening the device to ensure it is not mounted
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2) Sanity checks to avoid accessing non msdos disks
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Both features were suggested by Karl Eichwalder (ke@pertron.central.de)
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Patch #7alk quater, 1 Oct 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) disk serial number support.
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2) mcheck works for every drive.
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Patch #7alk ter, 10 Sep 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) mformat works again.
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2) mmount allows the user to pass arbitrary arguments to mount.
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Floppy disks are no longer mounted by default on /mount/A /mount/B
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etc.
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Patch #7alk bis, 18 jul 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) Support for variable sector sizes.
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2) Support for "2m" formats.
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3) Support for formatting 16-bit fat disks.
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4) Support for formatting ED disks (Their capacity is too big to
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use a 12 bit FAT and 1 sector clusters. Either use bigger
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clusters or a 16 bit FAT)
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5) Mcopying from one DOS drive to another works now. (It used to
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call mktemp on a non-writable string)
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Patch #7alk, 16 feb 94
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This patch adds the following features:
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1) Mtools can now set the disk geometry on Linux. (Useful for
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reading 1.72 Mb disks. This was already possible on unixpc and
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SPARC )
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2) New mmount command. Reads the boot sector, sets the geometry
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and finally mounts the disk. Only available for Linux.
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3) Mwrite can now write stdout to a DOS file: mwrite - a:test
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4) Mread now also acts as mtype: mread a:test -
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5) Mtools now tries 3 sources to get its drive geometry.
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configuration: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools, and finally
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compiled-in. ( The two first are conditional on LOADDEVS being
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defined ). LOADDEVS is now compatibles with the various geometry
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setting routines (init_linux, init_sparc and init_unixpc).
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6) Bug fixes for -t mode of mwrite and mread. ( For certain file sizes
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the trailing DOS end-of-file character wasn't correctly written.)
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7) Bug fixes for "drive probing code." (Now failure to lock onto a disk
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causes always trial of the next configuration. Before, mtools used
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to abort on certain cases). Similar fixes in mformat.
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8) Optimization/bug fix of cluster/fat repartition in mformat.c
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9) Made fat checking code optional. (1.72mb disks mformatted with old
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mtools were almost always rejected) To bypass fat-checking set the
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environment variable MTOOLS_FAT_COMPATIBILITY
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10) Mtools now opens /dev/tty to ask for confirmation messages. This
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way, it doesn't interfere with mreading/mwriting from/to stdin/stdout.
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CAUTION: I only tested this with Sparc and Linux. Although I left #ifdefs
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for other OS's in devices.c, that doesn't mean that it works on these OS's.
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Patch #7+, 19 sep 93
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This patch merges in the mods against 2.05 under Linux. Two are the main
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changes: that all commands are linked as a single executable, which can
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be linked as different name, and that the device specs are no longer
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hardcompiled but are read dynamically from /etc/mtools (the latter change
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is conditional on LOADDEVS being defined).
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Patch #7, 6 Sep 92
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This patch will change the method of determining if the FAT encoding
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scheme in the devices.c file is correct. The method introduced by patch
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#6 was naive and easily fooled.
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A pre-processor variable called CHK_FAT has been added to the fat_read.c
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file just in case this new method isn't appropriate for all disks.
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Patch #6, 21 Aug 92
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This patch will add the following features:
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1) Mtools commands now use advisory locks to preclude two
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processes from writing to the same DOS filesystem. You must
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edit the Makefile to choose one of the 3 lock methods:
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-DLOCKF, -DFLOCK, or -DFCNTL.
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See the Configure file for more details.
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2) An error detection routine has been added to determine if the
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FAT encoding scheme in the devices.c file is correct.
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3) Mtools commands now return exit codes with the following
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meaning:
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0 = success
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1 = utter failure
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2 = partial success/failure. (at least one successful
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operation, but at least one failure)
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It also corrects a bug when Mtools is used on machines that have 16 bit
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integers. However, machines with 16 bit integers are limited to FAT
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tables that are less than 64k in length.
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Patch #5, 25 Aug 91
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This patch will add a few new features:
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1) Mtools will now work properly on MSDOS partitions that are
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greater than 32M.
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2) If the "current working directory" information (contained in
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the $HOME/.mcwd file) is more than 6 hours old, Mtools will
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issue a warning and ignore the old information.
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3) The mcopy command will now copy files between 2 MS-DOS file
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systems (such as mcopy "a:*" b:).
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Patch #4, 11 Apr 91
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This patch will fix a bug in the mmd command where directories
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inherited the file name extension of the parent directory. It
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also adds a feature that will allow the copying of zero length
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files.
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Patch #3, 28 Nov 90
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This patch will fix a bug where Mtools sometimes bypasses the
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disk "cache" and reads/writes to the disk directly.
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Patch #2, 21 Nov 90
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This patch will fix a bug in the folding of MS-DOS filenames to
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lower case, and will fix a bug that could prevent the detection
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of a full disk.
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Patch #1, 12 Oct 90
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This patch will fix a few problems on Berkeley flavors of Unix,
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and will fix the floating point exception bug when Mtools is
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used with diskettes that have been formatted under very old DOS
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(or formatted by some other non-DOS system).
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New in the v2.0 release....
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1) Support for multiple devices. Mtools now supports:
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multiple floppy disks (A:, B:, etc)
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DOS partitions on a hard disk
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DOS "images" such as those VP/ix uses.
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2) Wildcards are supported anywhere in a pathname (not just
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in the "filename" part as before)
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3) Reads and writes to slow devices are now "cylinder buffered"
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when appropriate.
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4) Versions of CD, FORMAT, LABEL, and ATTRIB have been added.
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5) A Mtools.1 manual page has been added for an overview of Mtools.
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6) The mkmanifest command has been added. Although not an 'mtool'
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command, it makes life easier when fixing up Unix filenames that
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get clobbered by MS-DOS file name restrictions.
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7) The mkdfs program of the "fast-mtools" release for the Sun
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SparcStation can be replaced with mformat.
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8) The Configure file has been included to help those who must add
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devices to the devices.c file.
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Many thanks to Viktor Dukhovni (viktor@math.princeton.edu) for
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many of the ideas in the new release.
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