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From sparkyfs!ames!mailrus!uunet!allbery Mon Mar 26 09:10:58 PST 1990

Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 81
Submitted-by: viktor@melon.princeton.edu (Viktor Dukhovni)
Archive-name: sparc-mtools/part01

	By permission of Emmet Gray I am reposting "mtools"

The comp.sources.unix archives are out of date wrt Emmet's latest version
and I have added a somewhat more general driver support mechanism,   so
that the Unix PC and other machines that can read DOS disks only after
various parameters are changed with disk ioctls can be supported more easily.

	Included is "mkdfs" an "mkfs" for dos disks,  currently this
works only with 3.5", 80 track disks, and knows the path of the low level format
program only on the SparcStation 1 or Sun 3/80.  A more general program
based on an external table (/etc/dosformat.dat?) should be written one day.

	The mread and mwrite are considerably faster on fresh disks,
up to a factor of 12 for large files on high density disks.  The algorithm
degrades to the original speed once files get substantially fragemented,
A more robust algorithm is possible,  but this is quite good enough for
moving files around,  which is the main application I would expect to see
for this package.  

	Enjoy!  And please send those bug fixes or improvements,  the
package is still 90% Emmet's code,  so I would much have preferred for him
to resubmit it,  but there is a lot of demand for it now with the desktop
Suns selling in unprecedented numbers,  and Emmet did not have much time
to devote to this.  The only bug I am aware of now is that globbing DOS
file names does not work entirely as expected.  This should either be fixed
or documented.

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=== mtools.shar2 =========================
From sparkyfs!ames!mailrus!uunet!allbery Mon Mar 26 09:11:18 PST 1990

Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 82
Submitted-by: viktor@melon.princeton.edu (Viktor Dukhovni)
Archive-name: sparc-mtools/part02

=== mtools.shar3 =========================
From sparkyfs!ames!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!allbery Mon Mar 26 09:11:32 PST 1990

Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 83
Submitted-by: viktor@melon.princeton.edu (Viktor Dukhovni)
Archive-name: sparc-mtools/part03
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