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Re: GnuPG in batch mode

From Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: GnuPG in batch mode
Message-ID <9e845fd951.harriet@blueyonder.co.uk> (permalink)
References <1aa2ad1b50.harriet@freeuk.com> <501bf01ec9sbellon@sbellon.de> <d0202e1c50.harriet@freeuk.com>
Organization virginmedia.com
Date 2011-05-26 10:57 +0100

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On 11 Jan 2009 as I do recall,
          Harriet Bazley  wrote:

> On 11 Jan 2009 as I do recall,
>           Stefan Bellon  wrote:
>
> > Harriet Bazley wrote:
> > > I've been trying to migrate my PGP 2.x stuff across to GnuPG, but
> > > can't find an equivalent to the "+verbose=0 +batchmode" option, or to
> > > the "-z <passphrase>" command.
[snip]

> > For that very reason GnuPG can read the passphrase from a file
> > descriptor with --passphrase-fd (which is easy on UNIXes but not so
> > easy on RISC OS) or from a file with --passphrase-file. You can use
> > PipeFS for it.
>
> Aha.   I did spot "--passphrase-fd" but didn't understand how to
> use it :-)
>
> >
> > Looking at Google Groups it seems we have been discussing this topic
> > seven years ago. ;-)
>
> Just shows you how long it takes me to get round to actually upgrading -
> this time I really *do* need to migrate versions (although it turns out
> I can't do without IDEA support just yet!)
>
And again... I really ought to save the answer to these questions
somewhere!

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

I mean to live forever - or die trying!

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Re: GnuPG in batch mode Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2011-05-26 10:57 +0100

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