Disabling compression when encrypting

[Robert J. Hansen]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data
> with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid
> the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional layer of compression
> while encrypting? 

--compress-algo none

Alternately, you can add "compress-algo none" to the end of your
gpg.conf file.