Question - after decryption, carriage-control oddness?

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 02:22:03PM -0700, Chris De Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an odd, though minor, issue with certain encrypted
> messages... they decrypt correctly, but when I view them after
> decrypting (using Mutt), carriage returns are explicitly displayed,
> thusly:
> 
> This is some^M
> message text^M
> 
> The actual line breaks are in the correct place, and "^M" is actually
> a single character of course.

The messages are being sent as binary, not as text, so there is no way
for the recipient to canonicalize line endings (LF->CR->CRLF->etc).
You need "--textmode" in your GnuPG command line.

David