sample restore command does not work (syntax errors)

Binary package hint: dar-docs

/usr/share/doc/dar-docs/examples/sample1.txt contains the ONLY examples of how to extract less than everything from a dar archive anywhere in the documentation.

However they do not work!

dar says they have invalid syntax.

To quote:
#something like this to restore something (etc-subtree):
# dar -x /mnt/win_d/darbackups/SIMSON_backup -R / etc
#And something like this to retrieve a single file to temp
# dar -x /mnt/win_d/darbackups/SIMSON_backup -R /tmp/ etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf --flat

However both those commands result in:
    Parse error on command line (or included files): Unknown argument ...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 2 14:51:51 2010
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: dar-docs 2.3.9-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: dar
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64