GPG Windows tip

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Thu Mar 14 14:42:01 2002


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:22:35 +0800, ChingChe Chen said:

> I tried to decrypt a file "filenameover8.txt.asc", the out put file
> is "filena~1.asc.out". I just wondered is there some way to ensure
> that GPG can get a long file name form correctly.

As usual with a GNU software there are no limitations on filename
lengths. 

I recall that once you had to set a LONGNAMES flag in the created
executable to tell Windows (or was it just OS/2) not to autoconvert
the names.  However I am not sure on this, any windows hacker here?

  Werner