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From 5ec23f714e98407a6de25f6f40f125cc87b12908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:04:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: document gzip -l change

* NEWS, doc/gzip.texi (Invoking gzip), gzip.1 (gunzip):
Document recent change.
---
 doc/gzip.texi | 18 ------------------
 gzip.1        | 11 -----------
 2 files changed, 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/gzip.texi b/doc/gzip.texi
index abceb58..48b3485 100644
--- a/doc/gzip.texi
+++ b/doc/gzip.texi
@@ -300,14 +300,6 @@ ratio: compression ratio (0.0% if unknown)
 uncompressed_name: name of the uncompressed file
 @end example
 
-The uncompressed size is given as @minus{}1 for files not in @command{gzip}
-format, such as compressed @samp{.Z} files.  To get the uncompressed size for
-such a file, you can use:
-
-@example
-zcat file.Z | wc -c
-@end example
-
 In combination with the @option{--verbose} option, the following fields are also
 displayed:
 
@@ -323,16 +315,6 @@ With @option{--verbose}, the size totals and compression ratio for all files
 is also displayed, unless some sizes are unknown.  With @option{--quiet},
 the title and totals lines are not displayed.
 
-The @command{gzip} format represents the input size modulo
-@math{2^32}, so the uncompressed size and compression ratio are listed
-incorrectly for uncompressed files 4 GiB and larger.  To work around
-this problem, you can use the following command to discover a large
-uncompressed file's true size:
-
-@example
-zcat file.gz | wc -c
-@end example
-
 @item --license
 @itemx -L
 Display the @command{gzip} license then quit.
diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 0ae9765..65dea22 100644
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -492,17 +492,6 @@ detects that there is extra trailing garbage after the compressed data
 and emits a warning by default.  You can use the --quiet option to
 suppress the warning.
 .SH BUGS
-The gzip format represents the input size modulo 2^32, so the
---list option reports incorrect uncompressed sizes and compression
-ratios for uncompressed files 4 GB and larger.  To work around this
-problem, you can use the following command to discover a large
-uncompressed file's true size:
-
-      zcat file.gz | wc -c
-
-The --list option reports sizes as -1 and crc as ffffffff if the
-compressed file is on a non seekable media.
-
 In some rare cases, the --best option gives worse compression than
 the default compression level (-6). On some highly redundant files,
 .B compress
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