Subject: Re: bug#16699: gzip -l bug

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:11:26 -0800

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> It's a known problem, inherent to the gzip format (which stores only the
> last 32 bits of the uncompressed size).  Fixing it would require changing
> the format, which is unlikely at this point.

Thanks for the report Chris and for explaining, Paul.
I'm marking this issue as done (via the -done address Cc'd above).