a2kit v2.7.0

This release adds functionality useful for building a graphical front end

• geometry command to retrieve disk geometry
• stat command to retrieve file system statistics
• Better track solutions and identifications, esp. for piped images
• New trait object methods
  • TrackBits::chs_map
  • DiskFS::stat
  • DiskImage::{num_heads, get_track_solution, export_geometry, track_2_ch, ch_2_track}

a2kit v2.6.1

• Skip clap_complete when building on docs.rs
• Fix some issues with zsh completions

a2kit v2.6.0

• Some subcommands will accept a piped disk image
• Better handling of ProDOS volume names
• Integer BASIC
  • Fix a detokenizer bug
  • Handle hex escapes
• Shell completions via clap_complete
  • must be installed manually per shell

a2kit v2.5.0

• Adds the tree subcommand
  • useful for scripts that need to dig through directory trees
• More FAT support
  • handle DOS 1.x, support some 8 inch formats
• Select minifier level from the CLI
  • options currently limited, but allows for expansion

a2kit v2.4.1

Refinements and repairs to FAT

• fixes some issues with 180K, 320K, and 360K disks
• include the optional boot sector metadata
• correct the EOF in a retrieved FAT file image

a2kit v2.4.0

Adds support for the FAT file system

• useful for various retro operating systems, most notably MS-DOS
• full range of IBM 5.25 inch floppies (160K through 1200K)
• full range of IBM 3.5 inch floppies (720K through 2880K)

a2kit v2.3.0

• Efficient CLI access for non-contiguous ranges of sectors or blocks
• Subcommand aliases (e.g. dir and ls alias catalog)
• CP/M wildcards and CP/M 3 command tails can be used with a2kit dir
• Support for CP/M 3 timestamps and passwords
• Full R/W access for TD0 images

a2kit v2.2.0

• Support manipulating disk image metadata using the CLI
  • You can now get and put with -t meta.
  • Metadata is represented by a tree structure, see CLI documentation.
• Add support for the 2MG and NIB formats
• Fix a bug where required command line arguments were incorrectly parsed as optional
  • Problem was introduced with v2.0.7 when clap was upgraded.
  • Error messages and help messages are improved as a result of the fix.

a2kit v2.1.1

Outward facing

• add the --trunc flag for truncating raw data at the EOF if available
• more useful error messages for text encoding/decoding
• fix bug where unnecessary newline could be added to the end of a text file
• fix bug where write-protected DOS files refuse to detokenize
• fix bug in Pascal FS heuristics

Internals

• add read_raw and write_raw to the fs::DiskFS trait object
• load address is returned with the data for fs::DiskFS::load when applicable
• add integration tests for mkdsk

a2kit v2.1.0

Refines the handling of EOF in the file system layer.

• Correct a bug where the EOF is extended to the block boundary during restoration of a file image.
• More consistent handling of extension to block boundaries when reading: raw is extended, bin is not.

Downstream should review code that depends on whether read operations extend to block boundaries or not.