1[See Changelog for more recent changes] 2 32.5.1 29 Aug 1995 4 5Bug fixes to allow compiling and running on SINIX-D 5.41, thanks to 6Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. 7 8----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92.5 21 Aug 1995 10 11First public Alpha Test release of the newly rewritten Mtools. 12Summary of the many major changes: 13 14XDF support, ANSIfication, major restructuring, and debugging (Alain Knaff) 15VFAT support, new prompts for overwrites, and debugging (David Niemi) 16 17----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18Patch #7alk ... 4 Dec 94 19 20This patch adds the following features: 21 22 1) mbadblocks program to mark bad blocks 23 2) uses fat_type field of boot block to find out the number 24 of fat bits. 25 3) is able to format hard disk partitions (untested) 26 4) sets _all_ standard fields in boot sector, even without 2m mode. 27 5) adds boot code to the boot sector (which transfers booting to 28 the hard drive. In most cases, that's what the user wants.) 29 30----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31Patch #7alk ... 4 Nov 94 32 33This patch adds the following features: 34 35 1) Use even disk buffer size whenever possible to workaround a 36 bug in Linux blockdev code [???] 37 2) Clearer error message on failed sanity check 38 3) Removal of BOGUS Notes file 39 40----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41Patch #7alk quinter, 2 Nov 94 42 43This patch adds the following features: 44 45 1) O_EXCL flag when opening the device to ensure it is not mounted 46 2) Sanity checks to avoid accessing non msdos disks 47Both features were suggested by Karl Eichwalder (ke@pertron.central.de) 48 49----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50Patch #7alk quater, 1 Oct 94 51 52This patch adds the following features: 53 54 1) disk serial number support. 55 2) mcheck works for every drive. 56 57----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58Patch #7alk ter, 10 Sep 94 59 60This patch adds the following features: 61 62 1) mformat works again. 63 2) mmount allows the user to pass arbitrary arguments to mount. 64 Floppy disks are no longer mounted by default on /mount/A /mount/B 65 etc. 66 67----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68Patch #7alk bis, 18 jul 94 69 70This patch adds the following features: 71 72 1) Support for variable sector sizes. 73 2) Support for "2m" formats. 74 3) Support for formatting 16-bit fat disks. 75 4) Support for formatting ED disks (Their capacity is too big to 76 use a 12 bit FAT and 1 sector clusters. Either use bigger 77 clusters or a 16 bit FAT) 78 5) Mcopying from one DOS drive to another works now. (It used to 79 call mktemp on a non-writable string) 80 81----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82Patch #7alk, 16 feb 94 83 84This patch adds the following features: 85 86 1) Mtools can now set the disk geometry on Linux. (Useful for 87 reading 1.72 Mb disks. This was already possible on unixpc and 88 SPARC ) 89 2) New mmount command. Reads the boot sector, sets the geometry 90 and finally mounts the disk. Only available for Linux. 91 3) Mwrite can now write stdout to a DOS file: mwrite - a:test 92 4) Mread now also acts as mtype: mread a:test - 93 5) Mtools now tries 3 sources to get its drive geometry. 94 configuration: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools, and finally 95 compiled-in. ( The two first are conditional on LOADDEVS being 96 defined ). LOADDEVS is now compatibles with the various geometry 97 setting routines (init_linux, init_sparc and init_unixpc). 98 6) Bug fixes for -t mode of mwrite and mread. ( For certain file sizes 99 the trailing DOS end-of-file character wasn't correctly written.) 100 7) Bug fixes for "drive probing code." (Now failure to lock onto a disk 101 causes always trial of the next configuration. Before, mtools used 102 to abort on certain cases). Similar fixes in mformat. 103 8) Optimization/bug fix of cluster/fat repartition in mformat.c 104 9) Made fat checking code optional. (1.72mb disks mformatted with old 105 mtools were almost always rejected) To bypass fat-checking set the 106 environment variable MTOOLS_FAT_COMPATIBILITY 107 10) Mtools now opens /dev/tty to ask for confirmation messages. This 108 way, it doesn't interfere with mreading/mwriting from/to stdin/stdout. 109 110 111CAUTION: I only tested this with Sparc and Linux. Although I left #ifdefs 112for other OS's in devices.c, that doesn't mean that it works on these OS's. 113 114----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 115Patch #7+, 19 sep 93 116 117This patch merges in the mods against 2.05 under Linux. Two are the main 118changes: that all commands are linked as a single executable, which can 119be linked as different name, and that the device specs are no longer 120hardcompiled but are read dynamically from /etc/mtools (the latter change 121is conditional on LOADDEVS being defined). 122 123----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124Patch #7, 6 Sep 92 125 126This patch will change the method of determining if the FAT encoding 127scheme in the devices.c file is correct. The method introduced by patch 128#6 was naive and easily fooled. 129 130A pre-processor variable called CHK_FAT has been added to the fat_read.c 131file just in case this new method isn't appropriate for all disks. 132 133----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 134Patch #6, 21 Aug 92 135 136This patch will add the following features: 137 138 1) Mtools commands now use advisory locks to preclude two 139 processes from writing to the same DOS filesystem. You must 140 edit the Makefile to choose one of the 3 lock methods: 141 -DLOCKF, -DFLOCK, or -DFCNTL. 142 See the Configure file for more details. 143 144 2) An error detection routine has been added to determine if the 145 FAT encoding scheme in the devices.c file is correct. 146 147 3) Mtools commands now return exit codes with the following 148 meaning: 149 0 = success 150 1 = utter failure 151 2 = partial success/failure. (at least one successful 152 operation, but at least one failure) 153 154It also corrects a bug when Mtools is used on machines that have 16 bit 155integers. However, machines with 16 bit integers are limited to FAT 156tables that are less than 64k in length. 157------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 158Patch #5, 25 Aug 91 159 160This patch will add a few new features: 161 162 1) Mtools will now work properly on MSDOS partitions that are 163 greater than 32M. 164 165 2) If the "current working directory" information (contained in 166 the $HOME/.mcwd file) is more than 6 hours old, Mtools will 167 issue a warning and ignore the old information. 168 169 3) The mcopy command will now copy files between 2 MS-DOS file 170 systems (such as mcopy "a:*" b:). 171 172------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 173Patch #4, 11 Apr 91 174 175 This patch will fix a bug in the mmd command where directories 176 inherited the file name extension of the parent directory. It 177 also adds a feature that will allow the copying of zero length 178 files. 179 180------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 181Patch #3, 28 Nov 90 182 183 This patch will fix a bug where Mtools sometimes bypasses the 184 disk "cache" and reads/writes to the disk directly. 185 186------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 187Patch #2, 21 Nov 90 188 189 This patch will fix a bug in the folding of MS-DOS filenames to 190 lower case, and will fix a bug that could prevent the detection 191 of a full disk. 192 193------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 194Patch #1, 12 Oct 90 195 196 This patch will fix a few problems on Berkeley flavors of Unix, 197 and will fix the floating point exception bug when Mtools is 198 used with diskettes that have been formatted under very old DOS 199 (or formatted by some other non-DOS system). 200 201------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 202New in the v2.0 release.... 203 204 1) Support for multiple devices. Mtools now supports: 205 multiple floppy disks (A:, B:, etc) 206 DOS partitions on a hard disk 207 DOS "images" such as those VP/ix uses. 208 209 2) Wildcards are supported anywhere in a pathname (not just 210 in the "filename" part as before) 211 212 3) Reads and writes to slow devices are now "cylinder buffered" 213 when appropriate. 214 215 4) Versions of CD, FORMAT, LABEL, and ATTRIB have been added. 216 217 5) A Mtools.1 manual page has been added for an overview of Mtools. 218 219 6) The mkmanifest command has been added. Although not an 'mtool' 220 command, it makes life easier when fixing up Unix filenames that 221 get clobbered by MS-DOS file name restrictions. 222 223 7) The mkdfs program of the "fast-mtools" release for the Sun 224 SparcStation can be replaced with mformat. 225 226 8) The Configure file has been included to help those who must add 227 devices to the devices.c file. 228 229 Many thanks to Viktor Dukhovni (viktor@math.princeton.edu) for 230 many of the ideas in the new release. 231