decrypt adding ^M characters at the end of each line

[Randy Braun]

Thanks... I'll see if I can get the vendor to add --textmode to their
encryption process.



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  |David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com>                                                                                                                |
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  |Randy Braun <rbraun at footlocker.com>                                                                                                               |
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  |gnupg-users at gnupg.org                                                                                                                             |
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  |08/02/2011 10:43 AM                                                                                                                               |
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  |Re: decrypt adding ^M characters at the end of each line                                                                                          |
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On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Randy Braun wrote:

>
> Anyone have any ideas as to why I am seeing ^M characters at the end of
> each line after decrypting a file?
>
> I am using the following:
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> /sftw/gnupg/bin/gpg --output /path/path/testfile.txt
> --decrypt /path/path/testfile.txt.pgp
>
> This is gnupg 1.4.10 on AIX 5.3.12.2

This sort of thing can happen when the sender and receiver machines have
different conventions for what ends a line of text.  Unix machines use LF,
Windows uses CRLF, etc.  GPG has built-in support for handling this
confusion, but you have to tell it that the input file is text.

So, on the *encrypting* side, add "--textmode" to the command, and that
will tell GPG to store things appropriately, and the decrypting side will
recognize this and use the appropriate line endings in the resulting file.

David