PGP5/gpg armoring

brian moore bem at cmc.net
Wed Sep 30 12:52:20 CEST 1998


Okay, here's another example that may explain the problem better or may
be a different problem:

    [thorin:~] 11:43:53am 183 % cat test1.txt
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    [thorin:~] 11:44:01am 184 % gpg --clearsign test1.txt
    gpg (GNUPG) 0.4.0; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

    [thorin:~] 11:45:08am 185 % pgpv test1.txt.asc -o test1a.txt
    Opening file "test1a.txt" type text.
    Opening file "/dev/null" type text.
    [thorin:~] 11:45:41am 186 % diff test1.txt test1a.txt
    1,5c1,5
    < 1
    < 2
    < 3
    < 4
    < 5
    ---
    > 1
    > 2
    > 3
    > 4
    > 5
    \ No newline at end of file

In short, it's losing the last character if it's a newline.

(It doesn't seem to lose it if you're naughty and make a file with no
closing newline.)

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