Update documentation for environment variable

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Using environment variables to set parameters has security implications.
Therefore, this avenue is intentionally restricted.
Only `ZSTD_CLEVEL` is supported currently, for setting compression level.
Only `ZSTD_CLEVEL` and `ZSTD_NUMTHREADS` are currently supported.
They set the compression level and number of threads to use during compression, respectively.
`ZSTD_CLEVEL` can be used to set the level between 1 and 19 (the "normal" range).
If the value of `ZSTD_CLEVEL` is not a valid integer, it will be ignored with a warning message.
`ZSTD_CLEVEL` just replaces the default compression level (`3`).
It can be overridden by corresponding command line arguments.
`ZSTD_NUMTHREADS` can be used to set the number of threads `zstd` will attempt to use during compression.
If the value of `ZSTD_NUMTHREADS` is not a valid unsigned integer, it will be ignored with a warning message.
'ZSTD_NUMTHREADS` has a default value of (`1`), and is capped at ZSTDMT_NBWORKERS_MAX==200. `zstd` must be
compiled with multithread support for this to have any effect.
They can both be overridden by corresponding command line arguments:
`-#` for compression level and `-T#` for number of compression threads.
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