mtools
Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks, and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2" disk).
| Tags | Filesystems Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 11 Mar 2009 21:00
Changes: This release was made compliant with GNU guidelines for inclusion as an official GNU project. The file size limit has been fixed (4GB rather than 2GB). Compatiblity fixes for OS/2, ARM, and NetBSD.
- 09 Dec 2008 00:32
Changes: Compilation fixes for Solaris.
- 29 Nov 2008 14:20
Changes: Support for Unicode.
- 02 Jun 2007 14:36
Changes: This is mostly a maintainance release which fixes a couple of bugs, addresses warnings raised by gcc4, and merges some platform-specific patches (MingW, NetBSD, Redhat/Fedora, Cygwin, Solaris).
- 03 Mar 2005 21:04
Changes: This is mostly a maintenance release which fixes a couple of bugs in stability (long directory entries, FAT integrity, memory leaks etc.), the floppyd (a better locking algorithm, support for multiple drives), CYGWIN compatibility (supply O_BINARY flag), and XDF.
