"--armor" ignored when using the "--set-filename" option?

[vedaal at hush.com]

>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 23:20:55 +0100
>From: "Ralf Hauser" <ralfhauser at gmx.ch>
>Subject: "--armor" ignored when using the "--set-filename" option?
>To: <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
>Message-ID: <KJEOKFJJEDMIGBEEJCHCGEAEAAAB.ralfhauser at gmx.ch>
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>
>Thanks to Brian,
>(http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-January/021198.html)
>I
>figured that the attachment name can be hidden with GPG.
>
>However, I have troubles now getting "set-filename" to work together
>"armor"
>(input and output are piped):
>
>1) <<gpg --homedir
>/tmp/gpg-jw-ewynt6dazpf4 --no-tty --always-trust --comment
>yComment  -a  --set-filename a.txt --sign --passphrase-fd 0 --encrypt
>-r
>87826F38 >> the armor command gets ignored and binary output is
>produced (I
>am running this out of Java and get java.io.IOException: Broken
>pipe)
>
>Changing to "--armor" has no effect.
>
>2) I tried all kinds of other variants breaking the sequence of
>"gpg
>[--homedir name]  [options]  command " (as per the man page) that
>all
>produced
> <<usage: gpg [options] [filename]>>
>e.g. put the set-filename to the end
>(because on the command line "gpg --armor --encrypt --recipient
>me at domain.com --set-filename foo.txt <inputFile >encryptedFile.asc")
>works,
>...
>
>Any hints would be highly appreciated!

try gpg '-a --store'  instead of just '-a' 
and then the rest of your commands

vedaal




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