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Version 1.6-1 of ddrescue has been uploaded.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Important Note:
ddrescue is affected by a bug in Cygwin's raw device lseek().
(Cygwin <= 1.5.24-2 and snapshots < 2007-05-23).
Please read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ddrescue-1.6.README for further
info.

Description from README:
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or
block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue
data in case of read errors.

The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't
have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in
reverse mode, etc.

If you use the logfile feature of ddrescue, the data is rescued very
efficiently, (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt
the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point.

Upstream NEWS:

* A major code reorganization has been undertaken.

* This version skips faster over damaged areas after two consecutive
errors have been encountered.

* A new pass has been added that trims error areas backward before 
splitting.

* Support for sparse writes to the output file has been added.

* Blocks longer than sector size are now split at sector boundaries.

* The new option "--fill" has been added.

* The new chapter "Fill Mode" has been added to the manual.

* A "current status" line has been added to the logfile.

* This version can resume an interrupted retry pass instead of 
reinitiating it.

* This version achieves perfect resumability if interrupted during 
trimming or splitting.

* Handle also SIGHUP and SIGTERM (like SIGINT) to allow clean interrupt 
on connection loss or system shutdown.

* The "--quiet" option also quiets error messages.

* Print a more informative error message when reading an old logfile.

* A note has been added to the manual about old logfiles.

* Consistency checks have been added to detect possible bugs.

Changes in version 1.5:

* The license has been updated to GPL version 3 or later.


Christian Franke

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