Mention a limitation that was inherted from RFC1952, making
it impossible to obtain correct file size from a file that is larger than 4GB before compression. PR: bin/110329 MFC after: 1 week
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.Dd January 26, 2007
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.Dd March 16, 2007
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.An Matthew R. Green Aq mrg@eterna.com.au .
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.Sh BUGS
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According to RFC 1952, the recorded file size is stored in a 32-bit
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integer and therefore it can not represent files that is bigger than
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4GB in size. This limitation also applies to
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utility.
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