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environ.7: Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable 

gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ alx: srcfix ]
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -339,16 +339,11 @@ etc.).
However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
Thus, one has
.BR MORE ,
.BR LESS ,
.B MORE
and
.BR GZIP .
.BR LESS .
Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
programs.
The authors of
.I gzip
should consider renaming their option to
.BR GZIP_OPT .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR bash (1),
.BR csh (1),