-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Diehl wrote on April 6: When I use the following command line in a batch file, I get a Compression/ decompression error. No files are created. The contents of the batch file is: pgp -es %1 %2 Diehl Where %1 is the name of the file to send, and %2 is the other person's name. What am I doing wrong, or is ther a problem with my pgp? I think there's a problem with PGP. A net-friend of mine in Poland first brought this to my attention. He says he's already notified PGP author Branko Lankester. The problem's occurance seems to depend on the file being compressed/encrypted. Files which are already compressed, but are not ZIP files (e.g. ARJ files) seem to cause the problem. I was able to reproduce a similar problem by trying to compress ARJ.EXE (ARJ 2.30). In my case, the system crashed shortly - -after- PGP exited, and some of the armored files produced (I used - -eas) were obviously messed up. The obvious temporary bypass is to turn off compression for files which cause problems; not much of a penalty, since the file is already compressed. This can be done by a (temporary) change to the CONFIG.TXT file. I think there may also be an (undocumented) way to do this from the command line. Try: +compress=off -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBK8YEFN4nNf3ah8DHAQH1IgP9E0gvLSF2DQ5dkVcyXGGLZa4+bCcZ0kOM TefqfqFZLjU4MvOPMzXzkB01aDpg1IUyfExJazNjADCrbJKqFoZymyhuB+X6KMmy faTyFGsCeNcpA5x897qwsD/M7zM3j7EVauctAjNBTM9t/34eTuaYuesPPBmEaUcS yp7J1VOvbWM= =8+bK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca