Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format

[Mark Adler]

On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
> Concatenated gzip streams made by newer gzips fail on older gzips, though.

Greg,

Yeah, good point.  It doesn't work in that direction.

Another solution which works on any gzip file is to simply decompress the whole 
thing without writing it and reporting the uncompressed length.  pigz -tl does 
that.

Mark