ASCII versus BINARY ftp of encrypted file -- post ftp fixup?

[JanuszA.Urbanowicz]

Steve Butler wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
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> We have a client who routinely sends us an encrypted file using the ASCII
> rather than BIN ftp format.  At least whenever we have had them resend it
> using the BIN format the decryption works.  The error we get is:
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> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 5A2CEA48, created 2001-10-16
>       "First Choice Health Network (FCHN)"
> gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid block type
> secmem usage: 2336/4128 bytes in 6/11 blocks of pool 4768/16384
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> Has anybody played with doing a post-FTP fixup of such a file?  Suggestio=
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> on how we might recover the file without having the sender ftp it again?

I don't think it is possible. Make him use ascii armor.

Alex
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