Decrypted files are missing their extension

[Johan Wevers]

Paul Adams wrote:

>using my gui based PGP 8 client it decrypts to Bob.txt but if I do it
>from the commandline using GnuPG I get a file named Bob with no
>extension.

Put this line in your gpg.conf:

no-mangle-dos-filenames

This behavious is from the time that DOS didn't support double extensions
(actually, since the "dot" was never stored in the filesystem, it didn't
support a dot in a filename).

Since GnuPG never ran on plain MS-DOS I'm not sure why they programmed this
default. I believe some very old win95 versions also had problems with it.

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