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diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in
index 206356b..fa0578b 100644
--- a/dump/dump.8.in
+++ b/dump/dump.8.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: dump.8.in,v 1.31 2001/08/16 09:37:59 stelian Exp $
+.\"	$Id: dump.8.in,v 1.34 2001/11/11 00:06:39 stelian Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd __DATE__
 .Dt DUMP 8
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl F Ar script
 .Op Fl h Ar level
+.Op Fl I Ar nr errors
+.Op Fl j Ar compression level
 .Op Fl L Ar label
 .Op Fl Q Ar file
 .Op Fl s Ar feet
@@ -220,6 +222,24 @@ For security reasons,
 .Nm
 reverts back to the real user ID and the real group ID before 
 running the script.
+.It Fl I Ar nr errors
+By default,
+.Nm
+will ignore the first 32 read errors on the file
+system before asking for operator intervention. You can change this
+using this flag to any value. This is useful when running
+.Nm
+on an active filesystem where read errors simply indicate an
+inconsistency between the mapping and dumping passes.
+.It Fl j Ar compression level
+Compress every block to be written on the tape using bzlib library. This
+option will work only when dumping to a file or pipe or, when dumping
+to a tape drive, if the tape drive is capable of writing variable 
+length blocks. You will need at least the 0.4b24 version of restore in 
+order to extract compressed tapes. Tapes written using compression will
+not be compatible with the BSD tape format. The (optional) parameter 
+specifies the compression level bzlib will use. The default compression
+level is 2.
 .It Fl k
 Use Kerberos authentication to talk to remote tape servers.  (Only
 available if this option was enabled when
@@ -372,7 +392,7 @@ end of tape,
 end of dump,
 tape write error,
 tape open error or
-disk read error (if there is more than a threshold of 32).
+disk read error (if there is more than a threshold of nr errors).
 In addition to alerting all operators implied by the
 .Fl n
 key,
@@ -476,6 +496,7 @@ remote shell command to use when doing remote backups (rsh, ssh etc.).
 If this variable is not set, 
 .Xr rcmd 3
 will be used, but only root will be able to do remote backups.
+.El
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width __DUMPDATES__ -compact
 .It Pa /dev/st0
@@ -503,7 +524,8 @@ abnormal termination is indicated with an exit code of 3.
 It might be considered a bug that this version of dump can only handle ext2
 filesystems.  Specifically, it does not work with FAT filesystems.
 .Pp
-Fewer than 32 read errors on the filesystem are ignored. If noticing
+Fewer than 32 read errors (change this with -I)
+on the filesystem are ignored. If noticing
 read errors is important, the output from dump can be parsed to look for lines
 that contain the text 'read error'.
 .Pp