help the user to decide between ddrescue and dd_rescue by adding following lines to LONGDESCRIPTION === The author notes on the website: Meanwhile, the tool GNU ddrescue has been developed and supercedes some of dd_rescue's functionality for what it was originally designed for. It's still useful though for some special features, such as direct IO, sparse copies, safe deletion (with a fast userspace pseudo random number generator), splice copies, preallocation... Reproducible: Always
Not sure if all those statements are true anymore after going and searching for the differences between the two of them today.