detecting armor or text

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 vedaal at hush.com wrote:

> gpg --list-packets
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$ echo test | gpg --store | gpg --no-verbose --list-packets
:compressed packet: algo=3
:literal data packet:
 	mode b, created 1100533258, name="",
 	raw data: 5 bytes

                    +- armor
                   \/ 
$ echo test | gpg -a --store | gpg --no-verbose --list-packets
:compressed packet: algo=3
:literal data packet:
 	mode b, created 1100533259, name="",
 	raw data: 5 bytes

i don't see any difference in the "list-packets" between the binary and 
the armored input. i guess a mode "b" is armored or raw binary, and mode 
"t" is plain text?


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