Version 1.4-1 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-1.4.README for further info. Cygwin NEWS: * now builds OOTB on Cygwin. Upstream NEWS: * Added new option `--direct'. * Fixed a bug showing bad initial error size. * Fixed error counting. * Small changes to documentation. 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. Christian Franke -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and keep clicking "Next". If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
