gpg --encode / gpg --decode round-trip breaks my files

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Jun 6 21:44:02 2002


On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:27:23PM -0400, Ed Halley wrote:
> Upon hexdump inspection of wells.gif.out vs wells.gif, the bytes are
> similar, but get out of sync after a few dozen bytes.  This happened
> near some 0x09 0x0A bytes, by chance, in this test.  Is this some
> strange ASCII newline assumption artifact?  Binary files don't need to
> be encoded first, do they?

Check if you have "textmode" set in your options file.  That would
cause the exact problem you are seeing.

David

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