robert@triton.jpl.nasa.gov (02/25/91)
Archive-name: hardware/floppies/mtools/1991-02-22 Archive-directory: cerl.cecer.army.mil:/pub/mtools/ [129.229.1.101] Original-posting-by: robert@triton.jpl.nasa.gov Original-subject: MTools Availability Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) 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