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diff --git a/Release.notes b/Release.notes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f434b4a --- /dev/null +++ b/Release.notes @@ -0,0 +1,230 @@ +[See Changelog for more recent changes] + +2.5.1 29 Aug 1995 + +Bug fixes to allow compiling and running on SINIX-D 5.41, thanks to +Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +2.5 21 Aug 1995 + +First public Alpha Test release of the newly rewritten Mtools. +Summary of the many major changes: + +XDF support, ANSIfication, major restructuring, and debugging (Alain Knaff) +VFAT support, new prompts for overwrites, and debugging (David Niemi) + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk ... 4 Dec 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) mbadblocks program to mark bad blocks + 2) uses fat_type field of boot block to find out the number + of fat bits. + 3) is able to format hard disk partitions (untested) + 4) sets _all_ standard fields in boot sector, even without 2m mode. + 5) adds boot code to the boot sector (which transfers booting to + the hard drive. In most cases, that's what the user wants.) + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk ... 4 Nov 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) Use even disk buffer size whenever possible to workaround a + bug in Linux blockdev code [???] + 2) Clearer error message on failed sanity check + 3) Removal of BOGUS Notes file + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk quinter, 2 Nov 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) O_EXCL flag when opening the device to ensure it is not mounted + 2) Sanity checks to avoid accessing non msdos disks +Both features were suggested by Karl Eichwalder (ke@pertron.central.de) + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk quater, 1 Oct 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) disk serial number support. + 2) mcheck works for every drive. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk ter, 10 Sep 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) mformat works again. + 2) mmount allows the user to pass arbitrary arguments to mount. + Floppy disks are no longer mounted by default on /mount/A /mount/B + etc. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk bis, 18 jul 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) Support for variable sector sizes. + 2) Support for "2m" formats. + 3) Support for formatting 16-bit fat disks. + 4) Support for formatting ED disks (Their capacity is too big to + use a 12 bit FAT and 1 sector clusters. Either use bigger + clusters or a 16 bit FAT) + 5) Mcopying from one DOS drive to another works now. (It used to + call mktemp on a non-writable string) + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7alk, 16 feb 94 + +This patch adds the following features: + + 1) Mtools can now set the disk geometry on Linux. (Useful for + reading 1.72 Mb disks. This was already possible on unixpc and + SPARC ) + 2) New mmount command. Reads the boot sector, sets the geometry + and finally mounts the disk. Only available for Linux. + 3) Mwrite can now write stdout to a DOS file: mwrite - a:test + 4) Mread now also acts as mtype: mread a:test - + 5) Mtools now tries 3 sources to get its drive geometry. + configuration: first ~/.mtoolsrc, then /etc/mtools, and finally + compiled-in. ( The two first are conditional on LOADDEVS being + defined ). LOADDEVS is now compatibles with the various geometry + setting routines (init_linux, init_sparc and init_unixpc). + 6) Bug fixes for -t mode of mwrite and mread. ( For certain file sizes + the trailing DOS end-of-file character wasn't correctly written.) + 7) Bug fixes for "drive probing code." (Now failure to lock onto a disk + causes always trial of the next configuration. Before, mtools used + to abort on certain cases). Similar fixes in mformat. + 8) Optimization/bug fix of cluster/fat repartition in mformat.c + 9) Made fat checking code optional. (1.72mb disks mformatted with old + mtools were almost always rejected) To bypass fat-checking set the + environment variable MTOOLS_FAT_COMPATIBILITY + 10) Mtools now opens /dev/tty to ask for confirmation messages. This + way, it doesn't interfere with mreading/mwriting from/to stdin/stdout. + + +CAUTION: I only tested this with Sparc and Linux. Although I left #ifdefs +for other OS's in devices.c, that doesn't mean that it works on these OS's. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7+, 19 sep 93 + +This patch merges in the mods against 2.05 under Linux. Two are the main +changes: that all commands are linked as a single executable, which can +be linked as different name, and that the device specs are no longer +hardcompiled but are read dynamically from /etc/mtools (the latter change +is conditional on LOADDEVS being defined). + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #7, 6 Sep 92 + +This patch will change the method of determining if the FAT encoding +scheme in the devices.c file is correct. The method introduced by patch +#6 was naive and easily fooled. + +A pre-processor variable called CHK_FAT has been added to the fat_read.c +file just in case this new method isn't appropriate for all disks. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #6, 21 Aug 92 + +This patch will add the following features: + + 1) Mtools commands now use advisory locks to preclude two + processes from writing to the same DOS filesystem. You must + edit the Makefile to choose one of the 3 lock methods: + -DLOCKF, -DFLOCK, or -DFCNTL. + See the Configure file for more details. + + 2) An error detection routine has been added to determine if the + FAT encoding scheme in the devices.c file is correct. + + 3) Mtools commands now return exit codes with the following + meaning: + 0 = success + 1 = utter failure + 2 = partial success/failure. (at least one successful + operation, but at least one failure) + +It also corrects a bug when Mtools is used on machines that have 16 bit +integers. However, machines with 16 bit integers are limited to FAT +tables that are less than 64k in length. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #5, 25 Aug 91 + +This patch will add a few new features: + + 1) Mtools will now work properly on MSDOS partitions that are + greater than 32M. + + 2) If the "current working directory" information (contained in + the $HOME/.mcwd file) is more than 6 hours old, Mtools will + issue a warning and ignore the old information. + + 3) The mcopy command will now copy files between 2 MS-DOS file + systems (such as mcopy "a:*" b:). + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #4, 11 Apr 91 + + This patch will fix a bug in the mmd command where directories + inherited the file name extension of the parent directory. It + also adds a feature that will allow the copying of zero length + files. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #3, 28 Nov 90 + + This patch will fix a bug where Mtools sometimes bypasses the + disk "cache" and reads/writes to the disk directly. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #2, 21 Nov 90 + + This patch will fix a bug in the folding of MS-DOS filenames to + lower case, and will fix a bug that could prevent the detection + of a full disk. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Patch #1, 12 Oct 90 + + This patch will fix a few problems on Berkeley flavors of Unix, + and will fix the floating point exception bug when Mtools is + used with diskettes that have been formatted under very old DOS + (or formatted by some other non-DOS system). + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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 been 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 MS-DOS file name restrictions. + + 7) The mkdfs program of the "fast-mtools" release for the Sun + SparcStation can be replaced with mformat. + + 8) The Configure file has been included to help those who must add + devices to the devices.c file. + + Many thanks to Viktor Dukhovni (viktor@math.princeton.edu) for + many of the ideas in the new release. |