Help with decrypting gpg file

[John Betz]

David,

The file is a PowerArchiver file (containing multiple text files) that was
encrypted using PGP.

Thanks,

John
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Shaw [mailto:dshaw at jabberwocky.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:50 PM
To: John Betz
Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:28 PM, John Betz wrote:

> I was hoping to get some help with decrypting an archived file. I am  
> using the following command:
>
>
> echo "passphrase"| gpg --passphrase-fd 0 -o output.txt -d input.pgp
>
>
> The output file is created with no problem, however, there is  
> garbage in the first record. If I rename the file (or create it)  
> with a .zip extension and try to open it with WinZip it does not  
> recognize the file as an archive file. When I do the same operation  
> with PGP there is no problem.

How was the file encrypted in the first place?

David