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@@ -1,3 +1,107 @@ +v4_0_37 + - Removed mclasserase commands, which doesn't fit the coding + structure of the rest of mtools + - Add support to -i option to mcd + - Document -i in mtools.1 + - Fix a missing commad error in floppyd_io.c + +v4_0_36 + - Fix error status of recursive listing of empty root directory + - If recursive listing, also show matched files at level one + - Use "seekless" reads & write internally, where possible + - Text mode conversion refactoring + - Misc refactoring + +v4_0_35 + - Fix cluster padding at end of file in batch mode, and add + comments about what happens here + +v4_0_34 + - Fix mcopy -s issue + +v4_0_33 + - Fix support for partitions (broken in 4.0.30) + - Portability fixes for Solaris 10 and 11 + - General simplification of configure script, and largefile handling + - Tested and fixed for platforms *without* largefile support + - In cases where lseek works with 32-bit offsets, prefer + lseek64 over llseek + - Fixed floppy sector size handling on platforms that are not + Linux + - Added support for image files on command line to mcat + +v4_0_32 + - Simplify algorithm that choses filesystem parameters for + format, and align it more closely with what Win7 does + - Fix mformatting XDF when XDF not explicitly specified on + mformat command line + - easier way to enter sizes on mformat command line (mformat -C -T + 1440K) + - For small sizes, mformat assumes floppy geometries (heads 1 or 2, + tracks 40 or 80) + - Handle attempts to mformat too small filesystems more gracefully + - Enable minfo to print out additional mformat command line + parameters, if the present filesystem uses non-default + values for these + - minfo no longer prints bigsect if smallsect is set + - for remap filter, error when trying to write non-zero data + to unmapped sectors + - Fix misc compilation warnings occuring when disabling + certain features (largefiles, raw-term) + +v4_0_31 + - Move Linux-specific block device sizing code into + linux-specific section of devices.c + - Error messages for all failure cases on fs_init failure + - Fix compilation without XDF support (OpenImage signature) + - Fix polarity of format_xdf command-line parameter of mformat + - In XDF_IO retry enough times to actually succeed, even if + FDC was in a bad state before + - Remove useless buffer flushing triggered when giving up a + reference to a stream node that is still referenced + elsewhere. + - Clearer error message if neither size nor geometry of drive + to be mformatted is known + - In mformat, make Fs dynamically allocated rather than + on-stack, so as to be able to use utilities supplied by + stream.c + - Remove duplicate writing of backup boot sector + - Allow to infer geometry if only size is specified + - Protect against attempt to create zero-sized buffer + - Code simplification in mattrib + - Remove dead code in mpartition + +v4_0_30 + - Fixed XDF floppy disk access + - Fixed faulty behavior at end of image in mcat + - Device/Image size handling refactoring + - allow remap to write to zero-backed sectors (may happen if + buffer is flushed, and is not an error in that case) + - Raise an error when trying to mcopy multiple source files + over a single destination file (rather than directory) + - fix handling of "hidden" sectors (is a 2 byte quantity on + small disks, not 4 byte as previously assumed) + - Modernize partition support. Tuned consistency check to + actually check about important issues (such as overlapping + partitions) rather than stuff nobody else cares about + (alignment on entire cylinder boundaries) + - Move various "filter" options (partition, offset, swap, + scsi) into separate classes, rather than leaving almost + everything in plain_io + - Simplify and centralize geometry handling and LBA code + - Fix some more more compiler warnings +v4_0_29 + - Fix bug in cluster preallocation, which was accidentally introduced + by compiler warning "fixes" from v4_0_28 +v4_0_28 + - Support remapping of data (for not-quite linear floppy image files) + - Re-open floppy devices read-write if geometry parameters need to + be changed + - relax consistency checks in mpartition (partitions created + by current fdisk would almost never pass these checks) + - Fix some compiler warnings +v4_0_27 + - Fix type error in calls to iconv functions v4_0_26 - Fix compilation on Macintosh - Ignore image file locking errors if we are performing a |