Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Reply to bugs in the manual, concerning the --fill-mode chapter

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Dmitry Kostin wrote:
> Antonio, there is really a BUG in the following one line of the
> online manual, there should be "-" (minus) instead of "l-" (L
> minus):

I don't think so. The 'l' is optional. You give it to write location 
data to the sector. If you don't use it, how can you know the location 
in the device of a bad sector in a file?


> One more issue - I can not understand the option "-dr9" in the following line 
> of the online manual:
>     ddrescue -b2048 -i0x12345000 -s2048 -dr9 /dev/cdrom cdimage mapfile
> Is it meaningful, or is it just another misprint/mistake in the manual?

It is equivalent to "-d -r 9".


Best regards,
Antonio.