Of course, this doesn't make the UNIX versions of PGP useless. There is absolutely no reason why you can't run your own personal Unix box. Really all you need is a 386 machine with Linux or 386BSD.
Yeah. Or even run BSDI on your 386SX notebook. That's what I'm doing. I don't want to use DOS, with all it's cruft. Much prefer a system I have full source code to...
The nice thing about the UNIX/Linux setup, is that you can still use all the UNIX tools to send/receive encrypted mail (your favourite mail user agent+pgp/ripem+UUCP+sendmail/smail) in a convenient way without messing with MSDOS.
Yeah. And... Well... I don't want to get into any religious battles, but I still prefer BSDI (the support is great and the networking code is much more stable) over Linux - and yes, I do know Linux was develped out here in Finland... Julf