1A short history of pdisk
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311/1996 - Spent a week to create a minimal partitioner
4                    that reads maps, initializes maps, can add and delete partitions.
5                    Released as version 0.1 to MkLinux team
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712/1996 - Spent three weeks adding more commands, writing
8                    documentation, fixing bugs and making it prettier.
9                    Released version 0.2 to Gilbert
10                    Fixed a few more bugs.
11                    Released as version 0.3
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1301/1997 - Spent two weeks creating MacOS version and fixing
14                    a few more bugs.
15                    Released as version 0.4
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1703/1997 -           Spent an evening adding device driver deletion
18                    and a couple of flags to private version.
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2007/1997 -           Some one else ported it to Rhapsody.
21                    Spent a couple of weeks adding variable block
22                    size support to Rhapsody version.
23                    Took the time to stop using rich man's source code control
24                    (multiple copies) in linux/mac and put sources under RCS.
25                    Folded linux/mac version changes into Rhapsody and
26                    brought some of the Rhapsody changes into linux/mac
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2809/1997 - Fixed bugs in MacOS version of variable block size.
29                    Added new dump routines.
30                    Added case-insensitive string matching.
31                    Released one copy of version 0.5a3 source internally.
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3310/1997 - Wrote MacOS documentation
34                    Minor fixes
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3611/1997 - A few more fixes
37                    Released as version 0.5
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3912/1997 - Integrated new media abstraction
40                    (includes support for ATA and ATAPI on MacOS)
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4201/1998 - Added media iterators (to fix grunge in dump.c)
43                    Added os_reload_media (to get rid of ioctl's in write_partition_map)
44                    Added rename partition command ('n' in edit mode)
45                    Added /dev/hd? and /dev/scd? to MkLinux list all disks
46                    Added 68k target to CW project
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4802/1998 - Released version 0.6
49                    Added support for ATA/IDE disks without LBA capability
50                    Fixed bug - create partition with unmodified size failed
51                    Added support for new (DR3) MkLinux names - show MkLinux
52                    name when displaying under another name and allow the
53                    MkLinux name to be used on input.
54                    Released version 0.7
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5602-04/2000 -        Clean up sources - fix naming, delete old email addresses
57                    Added support for display of Mac volume names
58                    Added cvt_pt target (for LinuxPPC team)
59                    Fix block 0 display to show logical offset of drivers
60                    Require confimation of quit without write
61                    Fix iteration to not complain about missing devices
62                    Warn when creating/writing a map with more than 15 entries
63                    Make initial window larger in Mac version
64                    Fix ATA support to scan buses correctly
65                    Fix linux names (in MacOS) to work right when many devices
66                    Change so WORM devices are considered 'CDs'
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6805/2000 -           Released version 0.8
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