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    1 Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3b (Yggdrasil)
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    3 It seems I didn't get the bug completely fixed in 0.3a.  Some
    4 borderline cases would still allocate too many sectors for the FAT.
    5 Again, nothing to worry about, just a nitpick -- this one would only
    6 in certain cases add one sector per FAT.
    7 
    8 Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3a (Yggdrasil)
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   10 Fixed a bug which would cause too many sectors to be reserved for the
   11 FAT (filesystem will still work fine, but have slightly less space
   12 available).
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   14 Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3 (Yggdrasil)
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   16 This version correctly handles even very large filesystems, and
   17 properly supports the modern (3.3+) DOS bootsector format, including a
   18 message printed on boot attempts.
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   20 Peter Anvin
   21 Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
   22 hpa@yggdrasil.com
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   26 Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.2
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   29 I've just uploaded mkdosfs to sunsite.unc.edu.  It works in a similar way
   30 to Remy Card's mke2fs, but creates an MS-DOS file system.
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   32 The filename is mkdosfs-0.2.tar.gz.
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   34 This second release should fix a small bug that could lead to FAT sizes that
   35 Linux's dosfs would accept but MS-DOS wouldn't.
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   37 The archive contains a manual page, binary and source versions.
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   40 Dave Hudson
   41 dave@humbug.demon.co.uk