MTools Availability

[robert at triton.jpl.nasa.gov]

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.

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