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you really ought to be more thoughtful about what and how you write on the cypherpunks list...

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The how is referring to not double spacing isn't it. Sorry, I've been up for the last couple of days and didn't even realize it. What do you mean what I write about?

He means that this is NOT alt.security.pgp - we are not here to teach you how to use a bloody C compiler or to summarise README notes for you. RTFM.

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anyway, the PGP code from MIT should compile on nearly all unix machines. i'm not sure it will compile with a g++ compiler though. all unix type machines should have uncompress, tar, (g)cc. just get the source from MIT.

I am not an idiot. I must have downloaded PGP from about 20 million different places. They are all either missing files, some times the darn code won't compile, or when I "tar xvf" half of the files bring up an error and the computer says it can not create the file. I'll try the address that you've sent. Hopefully I will have better luck.

You want help, but supply minimal information. Post your problem to the appropriate place - alt.security.pgp, and supply a bit of information - what version of the source are you trying to compile, what Unix platform, what version of the C compiler, etc.

In the persuit of constructing a stable cryptographic program that uses PGP what features should be included. Obviously all of the ones that PGP has and encrypting/decrypting e-mail but what else?

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