-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tom Jennings <tomj@wps.com> Writes:

Can you please stop mailing me these unidentifyable, undecodable files from a person I cannot identify, nor detect the reason for the anonymity?

Ok, I won't send that file anymore. Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> writes:

I've been receiving these, too. It seems to be a program which has the same effect as a one-line shell script to add the "+legal_kludge" option to the command line for PGP2.6, so that it generates backwards-compatible messages without violating anyone's license agreements.

Well not exactly, because of a bug in pgp, the +legal_kludge=off does not work by itself. What does work is +CERT_DEPTH=0 +LEGAL_KLUDGE=OFF +CERT_DEPTH=4 Where 4 is the value that you actually want for CERT_DEPTH. I did not want my program to change the behavior of pgp with respect to CERT_DEPTH. So I had my program scan config.txt to find the value there. It then sets the final value of CERT_DEPTH to be the value found there. If no value can be found for CERT_DEPTH then it uses pgp's hardcoded default which is 4.

It's easy to do such a shell script in Unix.

Which shell language? I understand that unix has several although I am not a UNIX expert.

Is there a good way in DOS to add a few command-line arguments in front of the ones the user has supplied?

I wanted to have a program that could be drop in replaceable in a dos environment. I wanted it to be possible to have existing pgp shells continue to work with the SEPT 1 kludge disabled. In DOS, there are common library calls that only spawn executables (.exe files) and do not spawn .bat files. The same is true of OS/2. If any of the commonly avaiable pgp shells used these calls, I wanted my program to be an executable so that it would work as a replacement which would disabled the kludge. I do not see how one could write a dos .bat file that could scan config.txt for the users choice of CERT_DEPTH. If you could do it, it would be sure to be slow. Some Dos users do not use microsoft's command.com, so it is hard to see how a .bat file could be fully portable in DOS.

If so that would seem easier (and smaller) to distribute.

Hal

In short, I think my program could be useful to some people who must send messages to people with old versions of pgp. I wish that someone would make it available at an ftp site. I won't send it out anymore and I am sorry I bothered you. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLl42Zw2Gnhl89QSNAQFgeQP9ESyltO1ilDje2WLrJxzgRU7M+AFE58aO KgL3V9cFkRnkrqgW0Itj9adG3MV77OI8g5xlaQNnVuOD061ly5Yt6hsCMGj8VTIw PLASysn84dsYqVItLD0+mCkLzO7Fw/PgJZ3rhJl+1v7AZZeluHaOSFH5egUs5S9X OmX4e/RKV+Q= =Ieoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----