Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:37387 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:2055 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lanai!bcc From: bcc@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: M-Tools, where to ftp from? Message-ID: <1991Apr19.142002.576@Eyring.COM> Date: 19 Apr 91 14:20:02 GMT References: <1991Apr16.152050.21344@Eyring.COM> Organization: Eyring, Inc. Lines: 26 In article ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Michel Forget) writes: >> The canonical version of Mtools is indeed posted at the .mil site mentioned >> in recent postings, but when I tried to FTP it (it is a 4-part set) one of >> the parts absolutely refused to transfer completely. It invariably truncated >> every time I copied it. I finally got a good copy at inria.inria.fr. The >> version I located is v2.0, and has support for CD, FORMAT, LABEL, and ATTRIB, >> plus a mkmanifest tool to assist in restoring unix file names that get lost >> in the translation to DOS file names. > > >What is M-Tools, exactly? I haven't heard of it before, so I'm curious. >It it a HD Utility, or is it some form of CLI? Thanks for the >information (I hope). Mtools does not run on an ST -- at least it has no reason to. It is a set of utilities to assist cross-developers on non-DOS/non-TOS machines. Originally, it was created to allow someone on a Sun read/write IBM floppy disks. Since TOS is compatible with the IBM format, a Unix-noid can use it to download favorite comp.binaries.atari.st stuff from the network directly to disk. Another possibility is to run the Sozobon compiler on the Unix machine, create binaries for TOS and write them to the floppy disk directly with Mtools. The process avoids Kermit and the other messy serial protocols. The code is easily ported to other hosts, as long as you have some way of reading a 512-byte sector from the raw disk. We have Emmet P. Gray to thank for this; I only use them. Brian Cooper.