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Ingo Klöcker ingo.kloecker@epost.de
Tue Dec 11 00:28:02 2001


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On Monday 10 December 2001 16:51, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:26:47 -0500
> David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > All that said, I think a --recursive flag in GnuPG is not
> > unreasonable.  It does raise the question: what does it mean to
> > encrypt a directory?  Do you want to end up with one big file that
> > contains the contents of the directory, or a directory full of
> > encrypted files?  (I'd say the second - the first is what "tar" is
> > for).
>
> The second option is better. I don't want to untar, decompress, and
> then decrypt. That's what I'm doing with tar now.

Actually you would have to decrypt, then decompress and then untar. ;-)

Regards,
Ingo
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