^M characters are embedded at the end of every record.

[Steve Butler]

Try using the --armour flag on encryption.  That will make the file bigger.


You might also use a tool to change a DOS file to a UNIX file after it has
been decrypted.  

That is part of what FTP does when you send a file in ASCII mode from a
Windows type box (where line terminators are the <CR><LF> pair of
characters) to a Unix type box (where line terminators is a single <LF>
character).  The ^M character is really a <CR>.  FTP removes the <CR> that
immediately precedes an <LF> character.

Which is why an encrypted file (non-ASCII armoured) always needs to be
FTP'ed as binary.  Should a <CR><LF> sequence show up in the datastream (and
they do!), the ASCII mode will remove the <CR> leaving a corrupted file.


-----Original Message-----
From: Loo, Peter [mailto:Peter.Loo@bannerhealth.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:24 PM
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: ^M characters are embedded at the end of every record.



Hi All,

I created a text file in Windows environment.  Then it is encrypted and
FTPed to a Unix server where the file is decrypted.  After decryption, I am
seeing ^M characters at the end of each record.  I have tried sending the
file in both ASCII and BINARY modes.  Both modes don't help.  However, if I
send the plain text file via FTP in ASCII mode, the file does not contain
and control characters.  Is there a way to decrypt the file into an output
file without ^M character or is there a way to encrypt the file without ^M?

Thanks in advance.

Peter

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