A short history of pdisk ------------------------ 11/1996 - Spent a week to create a minimal partitioner that reads maps, initializes maps, can add and delete partitions. Released as version 0.1 to MkLinux team 12/1996 - Spent three weeks adding more commands, writing documentation, fixing bugs and making it prettier. Released version 0.2 to Gilbert Fixed a few more bugs. Released as version 0.3 01/1997 - Spent two weeks creating MacOS version and fixing a few more bugs. Released as version 0.4 03/1997 - Spent an evening adding device driver deletion and a couple of flags to private version. 07/1997 - Some one else ported it to Rhapsody. Spent a couple of weeks adding variable block size support to Rhapsody version. Took the time to stop using rich man's source code control (multiple copies) in linux/mac and put sources under RCS. Folded linux/mac version changes into Rhapsody and brought some of the Rhapsody changes into linux/mac 09/1997 - Fixed bugs in MacOS version of variable block size. Added new dump routines. Added case-insensitive string matching. Released one copy of version 0.5a3 source internally. 10/1997 - Wrote MacOS documentation Minor fixes 11/1997 - A few more fixes Released as version 0.5 12/1997 - Integrated new media abstraction (includes support for ATA and ATAPI on MacOS) 01/1998 - Added media iterators (to fix grunge in dump.c) Added os_reload_media (to get rid of ioctl's in write_partition_map) Added rename partition command ('n' in edit mode) Added /dev/hd? and /dev/scd? to MkLinux list all disks Added 68k target to CW project 02/1998 - Released version 0.6 Added support for ATA/IDE disks without LBA capability Fixed bug - create partition with unmodified size failed Added support for new (DR3) MkLinux names - show MkLinux name when displaying under another name and allow the MkLinux name to be used on input. Released version 0.7