Add mtools

Add mtools

[John Darrington]

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This package is becoming less relevant today.  But still occasionally usefull.




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From 9e6c79963660bb258047782e66c086d5fd710cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 12:43:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Added mtools

* gnu/packages/mtools.scm: New file
---
 gnu-system.am           |    1 +
 gnu/packages/mtools.scm |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/mtools.scm

diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
index 2a0a88f..7a3f7b8 100644
--- a/gnu-system.am
+++ b/gnu-system.am
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES =				\
   gnu/packages/mit-krb5.scm			\
   gnu/packages/mp3.scm				\
   gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm		\
+  gnu/packages/mtools.scm			\
   gnu/packages/mysql.scm			\
   gnu/packages/nano.scm				\
   gnu/packages/ncurses.scm			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/mtools.scm b/gnu/packages/mtools.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b16f84b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/mtools.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2013 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages mtools)
+  #:use-module (guix licenses)
+  #:use-module (guix packages)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
+
+(define-public mtools
+  (package
+    (name "mtools")
+    (version "4.0.18")
+    (source
+     (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/mtools/mtools-"
+                          version ".tar.gz"))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "1hxciksv7av5ilnkvwbidyxxr1gzn24lr0mz9z8drkml7780im1h"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/")
+    (synopsis "Collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks.")
+    (description "Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks
+from GNU and Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file
+names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2
+disk). In addition to file access, it supports many FAT-specific features:
+volume labels, FAT-specific file attributes (hidden, system, ...), \"bad block\"
+map maintenance, access to remote floppy drives, Iomega ZIP disk protection,
+\"secure\" erase, display of file's on-disk layout, etc.") 
+    (license gpl3+)))
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Re: Add mtools

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> From 9e6c79963660bb258047782e66c086d5fd710cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 12:43:29 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Added mtools
>
> * gnu/packages/mtools.scm: New file

Pushed, thanks!

I recoded it to UTF-8 (from Latin-1), and synchronized the synopsis and
description with the canonical GNU blurbs (next time make sure to run
‘make sync-descriptions’, which fetches that info from the ‘gnumaint’
repo.)

Ludo’.