file extension, gnupgp on Win

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:16, Fok, Anthony wrote:
> hi, im new to this and right now, im still messing around with the
> basic signing, encryption and decryption of the program, i was
> wondering if it is designed that the file extension is lost after the
> decryption, because the thing i have tried is this,
>
> encrypt file test.zip--->test.gpg then i decrypt it, test.gpg
> --->test
>
> it doesnt have an extension anymore, plz advise, thanks
>
> Anthony Fok
>

AFAIK, this is not the default behavior. If you don't specify an output=20
filename on the command line prior to encryption, you will end up with=20
test.zip.gpg, which will then decrypt to test.zip.

The command I use on linux is:
gpg --encrypt --recipient xxx@ddd.ooo test.zip

=2E..that creates an encrypted file test.zip.gpg

- -A
- --=20
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