gpg 1.0.6 troubles with whitespace-only Comment header

Ingo Klöcker ingo.kloecker@epost.de
Sun Nov 25 15:37:01 2001


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On Saturday 24 November 2001 10:11, Timo Schulz wrote:
> On Fri Nov 23 2001; 22:59, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Hmm, gpg has the option --no-comment which does what those people
> > might want. And neither PGP 2 nor PGP 6 adds a Comment header if
> > there is no Comment defined in the configuration file. So those
> > people should simply remove the empty Comment entry from their
> > configuration files.
>
> The --no-comment option has nothing to do with comment lines in
> ASCII armored output! Here is the passage from the mainpage:
>
[snip]
>
> If you use --comment "" GPG writes *no* comment into ASCII armored
> ouput.

Oops. Thanks for correcting me. I've to admit that I thought the 
- --no-comment option would correspond to the --comment option. Next time 
I'll read the man pages more thoroughly.

Regards,
Ingo
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