On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:33:45AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: > pgp -sa file_to_sign, and then it writes a file, file_to_sign.asc > . This file has a "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" line and a bunch of characters and > an ending line. On other signed documents, I have seen the original text > inserted in here, but pgp does not do this. Can I insert it by hand ? I > spent a few hours last summer reading docs on pgp, and never saw this > question addressed. That depends on what you sign. If pgp encounters some non-ascii-chars, it assumes the file to be a binary and therefor "armors" it with a base64 encoding. You may also have look at /etc/pgp-i.conf: set charset=noconv set TextMode=On regards Sascha -- Sascha Runschke eMail : decker@matrix.ping.de Tel: +49-(0)177-2767693 Get the power of Debian-Linux http://www.debian.org Key fingerprint = EE 35 4A DB C2 3E 5F D4 38 DD BB E7 8F 06 5D BF
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