-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Learn something new every day. On *my* (SCO unix) system it is easy to read the command line via ps. On *my* system ps -e reports on every process, not the environment. I can find no reference to 'environment' in the ps man page. Finaly, after talking with a more knowledgeable-than-I unix guru, I felt that the environment was a safer place to put the passphrase. But, since there is at least one place where this is not true (and after reading some BSD man pages, it seems there a quite a few), I will have to *improve* my code. I will offer all three ways (environment, command line, and file-descriptor) to input a passphrase. (And will try to figure out how to read the environment of other processes under Sys V...) I would apreciate input from unix gurus out there about which systems make the environment hard to read, and which easy; and similar stuff about the command line, and pipes. Thanks for your help making pgpmail even better! j' - -- O I am Jay Prime Positive jpp@markv.com 1250 bit key fingerprint = B8 95 E0 AF 9A A2 CD A5 89 C9 F0 FE B4 3A 2C 3F 524 bit key fingerprint = 8A 7C B9 F2 D5 46 4D ED 66 23 F1 71 DE FF 51 48 Public keys by `finger jpp@markv.com' or mail to pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu Your feedback is welcome, directly or via symbol JPP on hex@sea.east.sun.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQBXAgUBLFThN9C3U5sdKpFdAQHwmQIMDENppnUL3Y+KeteuUstqklcFD37+zZed p7RY/FExSg1Axi96plNWXTD3UhOV7P0z1LQsaqi6W63HS4O0lkMsO7sf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----