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Fix BGZF block size to be 64 kilobyte #839

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Expand Up @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ \subsection{The BGZF compression format}
bug.}

A BGZF file is a series of concatenated BGZF blocks, each no larger
than~64Kb before or after compression. Each BGZF block
than 64\,KiB both before and after compression. Each BGZF block
is itself a spec-compliant gzip archive which contains an ``extra field''
in the format described in RFC1952. The gzip file format allows the
inclusion of application-specific extra fields and these are ignored by
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