Mentioned support for DVD-R DL as single-session media

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@ -264,6 +264,10 @@ There are two families of media in the MMC standard:
unformatted DVD-RW. These media provide a table of content which
describes their existing sessions. See option @strong{-toc}.
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Similar to multi-session media are DVD-R DL and minimally blanked DVD-RW.
They allow only a single session of which the size must be known in advance.
xorriso will write onto them only if option -close is set to "on".
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@cindex Overwriteable media, _definition
@strong{Overwriteable media} are DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE, and formatted DVD-RW.
They allow random write access but do not provide information about their
@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ The write method of @strong{modifying} produces compact filesystem
images with no outdated files or directory trees. Modifying can write its
images to target media which are completely unsuitable for multi-session
operations. E.g. DVD-RW which were treated with -blank deformat_quickest,
named pipes, character devices, sockets.
DVD-R DL, named pipes, character devices, sockets.
On the other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable media
but to blank media only.
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