[PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

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gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man7/environ.7 | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
index ee8ca97f6..77d9d3950 100644
--- a/man7/environ.7
+++ b/man7/environ.7
@@ -339,16 +339,10 @@ 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 ,
-and
-.BR GZIP .
+.BR MORE and
+.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),
-- 
2.30.1




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