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Changes in mtools 4.0.18

Version 4.0.18
  • mtools (4.0.18) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fix for names of iconv encodings on AIX
  • * Fix mt_size_t on NetBSD
  • * Fixed compilation on Mingw
  • * Fixed doc (especially mformat)
  • * Fix mformat'ing of FAT12 filesystems with huge cluster sizes
  • * Minfo prints image file name in mformat command line if an image file name was given
  • * Always generate gzip-compressed RPMs, in order to remain compatible with older distributions
  • * Fixed buffer overflow with drive letter in mclasserase
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Wed, 9 Jan 2013 00:21:20 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.17) stable; urgency=low
  • * mbadblocks now takes a list of bad blocks (either as sectors or as clusters)
  • * mbadblocks now is able to do write scanning for bad blocks
  • * mshowfat can show cluster of specific offset
  • * Enable mtools to deal with very small sector sizes...
  • * Fixed encoding of all-lowercase names (no need to mangle these)
  • * Consider every directory entry after an ENDMARK (0x00) to be deleted
  • * After writing a new entry at end of a directory, be sure to also add an ENDMARK (0x00)
  • * Deal with possibility of a NULL pointer being returned by localtime during timestamp conversion
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:21:20 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.16) stable; urgency=low
  • * configure.in fixes
  • * fixed formatting of fat_size_calculation.tex document
  • * compatibility with current autoconfig versions
  • * Make it clear that label is limited to 11 characters
  • * Fixed typo in initialization of FAT32 info sector
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:00:30 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.15) stable; urgency=low
  • * Added missing -i option to mshortname
  • * Splitted .deb package into mtools and floppyd in order to match Ubuntu
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:42:46 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.14) stable; urgency=low
  • * New mshortname command
  • * Fix floppyd for disks bigger than 2 Gig
  • * Remove obsolete -z flag
  • * Remove now unsupported C_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
  • * Fixed output formatting of mdir if MTOOLS_DOTTED_DIR is set
  • * Mformat now correctly writes backup boot sector
  • * Fixed signedness of serial number in mlabel
  • * Fixed buffer size problem in mlabel
  • * Make mlabel write backup boot sector if FAT32
  • * Catch situation where both clear and new label are given to mlabel
  • * Quote filename parameters to scripts
  • * Mformat: Close file descriptor for boot sector
  • * Added lzip support to scripts/uz
  • * Added Tot_sectors option to mformat
  • * Fixed hidden sector handling in mformat
  • * Minfo generates mformat command lines containing new -T option
  • * Mlabel prints error if label too long
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:19:48 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.13) stable; urgency=low
  • * Merged Debian patches
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:33:45 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.12) stable; urgency=low
  • * Mingw compatibility fixes
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:26:58 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.11) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fixed compiler in mlabel.c and elsewhere
  • * Fixed h flag in mattrib.c
  • * Added missing error checking in floppyd and elsewhere
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:38:19 +0200
  • mtools (4.0.10) stable; urgency=low
  • * More copyright stuff
  • * Fixed issues with max filesize (was 2GB instead of 4GB, and warned only after copying the beginning)
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:14:04 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.9) stable; urgency=low
  • * More copyright stuff
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:15:54 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.8) stable; urgency=low
  • * Copyright notices
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:36:22 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.7) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fixed conversion to native on OS/2
  • * Fix parsing of --help flag
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:55:46 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.6) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fallback for missing wchar_t iconv codepage on OS/2
  • * Fixes for LSEEK64 support
  • * Support for --help that returns a 0 exit status
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:04:32 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.5) stable; urgency=low
  • * Make setpgrp() usage in floppyd conditional
  • * Re-instate PACKED around structure (ARM)
  • * LSEEK64
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:55:04 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.4) stable; urgency=low
  • * BSD support: SCSI, use getuserid/getgroupid in floppyd
  • * Another attempt at putwc fix for OS/2
  • * Further GNU fixes
  • * Fallback for putwc if there is wchar (OS/2)
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:18:32 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.3) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fix multipart pathname parsing bug in vfat.c (forgot limited length)
  • * Supplied fallback define for putwc
  • * Copyright notices in all sources
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:46:01 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.2) stable; urgency=low
  • * Fixed off-by-2 error in unix_name in file_name.c
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:58:06 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.1) stable; urgency=low
  • * Missing functions on Solaris
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:38:55 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.0) stable; urgency=low
  • * Offset for -i-specified image files
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:20:30 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.0-pre2) stable; urgency=low
  • * Use transliteration to represent characters which don't exist in target set
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:42:23 +0100
  • mtools (4.0.0-pre1) stable; urgency=low
  • * Unicode support
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:52:58 +0100
  • mtools (3.9.11-20071226) stable; urgency=low
  • * first release of debian package
  • -- Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:23:37 +0100