This is mtools.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from mtools.texi.
-This manual is for Mtools (version 4.0.42, October 2022), which is a
+This manual is for Mtools (version 4.0.43, March 2023), which is a
collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files.
Copyright (C) 2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright
'/etc/mtools.conf' works on your machine). With mtools, one can change
floppies too without unmounting and mounting.
- This manual is for Mtools (version 4.0.42, October 2022), which is a
+ This manual is for Mtools (version 4.0.43, March 2023), which is a
collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files.
Copyright (C) 2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright
*********************
Mtools can be found at the following places (and their mirrors):
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.42.tar.gz
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mtools/mtools-4.0.43.tar.gz
These patches are named 'mtools-'VERSION'-'DDMM'.taz', where version
stands for the base version, DD for the day and MM for the month. Due
older mtools version, and may make the disk unreadable. Only use
if you know what you are doing.
+'b'
+ Use a non-standard bios disk number for this disk. By default,
+ bios disk number is inferred from media descriptor: 0x80 for media
+ descriptor 0xf8, or 0x00 otherwise.
+
To format a diskette at a density other than the default, you must
supply (at least) those command line parameters that are different from
the default.
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