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Import of pdisk from apple, BSD licensed code. Archive dated Feb 18 1998 
This is a HFS partition editing tool.

A short history of pdisk
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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