GNU mtools 4.0.49 released

[Alain Knaff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU mtools version 4.0.49

GNU mtools is available for download from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools and the mirror sites worldwide (see
http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html for the list of those).

The sources can be obtained from ftp.gnu.org and its world-wide mirrors:

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.49.tar.gz    (556K)
  SHA-1: b9f90c51a91cab19b5c470daff6f18cfb5740473

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.49.tar.bz2   (461K)
  SHA-1: e1e90e91e248c253d6ccf95ece3876c8a3fdff8a

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.49.tar.lz    (388K)
  SHA-1: 30d63dae2f585ee433561acab465fb5d6af0a8b4


The same directory also contains pre-compiled Debian packages.

Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from GNU
and Unix without mounting them, to change FAT-specific file attributes
(hidden, archive, system), and to format FAT media.

Mtools supports W32 style long file names, FAT32, OS/2 Xdf disks and
2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools also
includes mpartition, a simple partitioning programing. It is also a
convenient tool to work with disk image files (thanks to the -i flag).

For more information on mtools, including links to file downloads,
please see the mtools web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools

Please email bugs or suggestions to <info-mtools@gnu.org>.

Improvements since the 4.0.48 release are:
        - Correctly detect overlong file names, especially when
          multi-byte (UTF-8) strings are concerned
        - Fix off-by-one error in 2 calls to native_to_wchar
        - When changing disk label, ignore any plain file which would
          match label
        - Added missing newlines in error messages about disk geometry
        - Do not print error message if getting geometry is simply not
          supported by device type (such as for loop devices)
        - If full geometry of a device is not available (such as for
          loop devices), at least make use of the size

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Regards,

Alain