Hi, the skip value in gzexe seems to be wrong since the [1] commit. See the attached patch/test. The problem and its solution has been originaly reported here [2] (Mentioning just for the credit sake). Thanks, Jakub [1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=63aa2268a5abfed0116d04bbe3952e4a753af91d [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690825