Bug introduced by ,,2008-08-06T18:28:20.524086Z Ray Johnston'' change. If -dLastLine is not set, bit devices produces 0 bytes long files. It is caused by a mistake in gdevbit.c (patch included in the attachment).
Created attachment 4779 [details] gdevbit.c patch variable ,,bottom'' is not used in loop below -- only ,,line_count'' is taken in count.
Thanks for sptting this. I committed a slightly different patch, but at least I get the correct number of lines out when FirstLine==LastLine==0 Patch committed as rev 9452.