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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
-manpage(rsync)(1)(5 Jan 2001)()()
+manpage(rsync)(1)(3 Mar 2001)()()
 manpagename(rsync)(faster, flexible replacement for rcp)
 manpagesynopsis()
 
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ If the sending side detects any IO errors then the deletion of any
 files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is to
 prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the
 sending side causing a massive deletion of files on the
-destination. 
+destination.  You can override this with the --ignore-errors option.
 
 dit(bf(--delete-excluded)) In addition to deleting the files on the
 receiving side that are not on the sending side, this tells rsync to also
@@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ transferring files to try to ensure that there is sufficient space on
 the receiving filesystem. If you want to delete after transferring
 then use the --delete-after switch.
 
+dit(bf(--ignore-errors)) Tells --delete to go ahead and delete files
+even when there are IO errors.
+
 dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if
 they are not empty.  This applies to both the --delete option and to
 cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination
@@ -562,20 +565,20 @@ scratch directory when creating temporary copies of the files
 transferred on the receiving side.  The default behavior is to create
 the temporary files in the receiving directory.
 
-dit(bf(--compare-dest=DIR)) This option instructs rsync to use DIR as an
-additional directory to compare destination files against when doing
-transfers.  This is useful for doing transfers to a new destination while
-leaving existing files intact, and then doing a flash-cutover when all
-files have been successfully transferred (for example by moving directories
-around and removing the old directory, although this requires also doing
-the transfer with -I to avoid skipping files that haven't changed).  This
-option increases the usefulness of --partial because partially transferred
-files will remain in the new temporary destination until they have a chance
-to be completed.  If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the
-destination directory.
+dit(bf(--compare-dest=DIR)) This option instructs rsync to use DIR on
+the destination machine as an additional directory to compare destination
+files against when doing transfers.  This is useful for doing transfers to
+a new destination while leaving existing files intact, and then doing a
+flash-cutover when all files have been successfully transferred (for
+example by moving directories around and removing the old directory,
+although this requires also doing the transfer with -I to avoid skipping
+files that haven't changed).  This option increases the usefulness of
+--partial because partially transferred files will remain in the new
+temporary destination until they have a chance to be completed.  If DIR is
+a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.
 
 dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from
-the source file(s) which it sends to the destination machine.  This
+the files that it sends to the destination machine.  This
 option is useful on slow links.  The compression method used is the
 same method that gzip uses.