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>

diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
index d61b681347aac5f6fcaf1afacc798eeae0a98222..5208f0630708ee4bd40aeca148694e78d50bac1b 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/environ.7
+++ b/man7/environ.7
@@ -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),