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Mention a limitation that was inherted from RFC1952, making

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it impossible to obtain correct file size from a file that
is larger than 4GB before compression.

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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.Dd January 26, 2007
.Dd March 16, 2007
.Dt GZIP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -200,3 +200,11 @@ This implementation of
.Nm
was written by
.An Matthew R. Green Aq mrg@eterna.com.au .
.Sh BUGS
According to RFC 1952, the recorded file size is stored in a 32-bit
integer and therefore it can not represent files that is bigger than
4GB in size. This limitation also applies to
.Fl l
option of
.Nm
utility.