robert@triton.jpl.nasa.gov (02/23/91)
The most current version of mtools, as of Jan 91, is 2.0.3 and is available via anonymous ftp from cerl.cecer.army.mil. The release includes man pages. From the mtool "Readme" file: |Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems to |read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a |diskette). And without any mounting of the floppy drive as a MSDOS device! From the mtool "Release.note" file: New in the v2.0 release.... | 1) Support for multiple devices. Mtools now supports: | multiple floppy disks (A:, B:, etc) | DOS partitions on a hard disk | DOS "images" such as those VP/ix uses. | 2) Wildcards are supported anywhere in a pathname (not just in the | "filename" part as before) | 3) Reads and writes to slow devices are now "cylinder buffered" when | appropriate. | 4) Versions of CD, FORMAT, LABEL, and ATTRIB have been added. | 5) A Mtools.1 manual page has beed added for an overview of Mtools. | 6) The mkmanifest command has been added. Although not an 'mtool' | command, it makes life easier when fixing up Unix filenames that get | clobbered by MSDOS file name restrictions. | 7) The mkdfs program of the "fast-mtools" release for the Sun SparcStation | can be replaced with mformat. John R Veregge Section 348 - Flight Command and Data Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management (Technology Development) Calif Institute of Technology Mail stop: T1704, Office: T1704-P 4800 Oak Grove Drive Phone: (818) 354-0511, FAX: 393-4494 Pasadena, CA, USA 91109 john@triton.jpl.nasa.gov