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diff --git a/lib/README.curl_off_t b/lib/README.curl_off_t
index b60179da0..8e440a26c 100644
--- a/lib/README.curl_off_t
+++ b/lib/README.curl_off_t
@@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ In both these cases, the curl_off_t type will now (after the transition) be
64bit where it previously were 32bit. This will cause a binary incompatibility
that you MAY need to deal with.
+Benefits
+--------
+
+This new way has several benefits:
+
+o Platforms without LFS support can still use libcurl to do >32 bit file
+ transfers and range operations etc as long as they have >32 bit datatypes
+ supported.
+
+o Applications will no longer easily build with the curl_off_t size
+ mismatched, which has been a very frequent (and annoying) problem with
+ libcurl <= 7.18.2
+
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