problem with gzip --list

[Donald Zoch]

Hi

We have found that gzip --list does not list correct uncompressed size for
large files.   Our test file was approximately 8GB in size before gzipping
and gzip --list on the gzipped file does not show the correct size

gzip --list newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names.gz 
         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
          276896029          4209720692  93.4% newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names

gunzip newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names.gz 
 du -shm newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names 
8119    newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names


gzip -V  
gzip 1.4
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jean-loup Gailly.

gcc -v
Reading specs from 
/tool/pandora64/.package/gcc-4.1.1/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.1.1/specs
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/tool/pandora64/.package/gcc-4.1.1
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1


address@hidden tmp]# uname -a
Linux orkney 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:15 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

Donald Zoch

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Donald Zoch                    
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