GnuPG and trailing whitespace handling
Chip Christian
chip at princetontele.com
Tue Feb 9 12:57:24 CET 1999
Ah, dropping the (-t/--textmode) did what I needed.
> While we're on the topic of trailing whitespace... I haven't started
> digging into this yet, but I've been replacing pgp with gpg in some data
> transfer stuff I've been doing, and I'm getting a report that the data
> comes out the other end with trailing whitespace truncated. Am I doing
> something wrong? Is this expected/unexpected behavior? They're using PGP
> 5.x at the other end. I do this:
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> gpg --encrypt --sign --armor --textmode --force-v3-sigs ...
>
> Oh, should I replace the --textmode with -t? What's the difference?
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> -t, --textmode
> Use canonical text mode. If -t (but not
> --textmode) is used together with armoring
> and signing, this enables clearsigned messages.
> This kludge is needed for PGP compatibility;
> normally you would use --sign or --clearsign
> to selected the type os signatures.
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