Re: [mtools] Mtools 3.9.10 for VMS

[Alain Knaff]

Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> [I'm not the original submitter of the changes!]
>
> Hi,
>
> I've prepared a patch forward ported from Steven's source to
> mtools-3.9.10-20060531.
>
> *** Untested, for review and testing only! ***

Ok, I'll wait for the test reports to come in then... (as I have no 
access to VMS, I'll have to leave this to others...)

> Note: Apart from spelling fixes and whitespace fixes, there are also some
> "functional" changes (typecasting, bracketing includes within #ifdef
> HAVE_INCLUDE_H, and the likes). They look interesting, possibly correct,
> but I assume they need review.

I'd rather keep the patch focused...

> Alain, 3.9.11 anytime? ;-) I also have some old personal patches which
> I had considered useful, and I might want to propose them again.

Yes, go ahead

> BTW, Fedora core 5 (and other Linux distributions?) has a bunch of
> patches in the mtools code. Are they worth a look?
> mtools-3.9.6-config.patch
> mtools-3.9.6-paths.patch
> mtools-3.9.7-bigdisk.patch
> mtools-3.9.9-badc.patch
> mtools-3.9.9-noargs.patch

Judging from the version numbers, they look somewhat obsolete...

> mtools-gcc4.patch
> mtools-memset.patch

Maybe these could still be relevant?

> Thanks for the still very valuable tool (even in this day and age where
> I do not use floppy disks anymore)!

I'm glad to hear this, thanks ;-)

> Kind regards,
> Moritz

Regards,

Alain

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