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Mtools

Version:

4.0.17

Release date:

Sunday, 18 March, 2012

Home:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/

License:

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Mentore Siesto

MTools is a collection of utilities for disk handling.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. IBM OS/2 Warp 4.52 or eComStation 1.0 and later required. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Mtools v. 4.0.17 (18/3/2012, Mentore Siesto)	Readme/What's new	v4_0_17 mbadblocks now takes a list of bad blocks (either as sectors or as clusters) mbadblocks now is able to do write scanning for bad blocks mshowfat can show cluster of specific offset Enable mtools to deal with very small sector sizes... Fixed encoding of all-lowercase names (no need to mangle these) Consider every directory entry after an ENDMARK (0x00) to be deleted After writing a new entry at end of a directory, be sure to also add an ENDMARK (0x00) Deal with possibility of a NULL pointer being returned by localtime during timestamp conversion
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/emulator/mtools_4_0_17_os2.zip