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- From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Subject: Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person
- In-Reply-To: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 00:29:55 GMT
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- In article <C1Fqq9.1wG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
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- To add my own two problems:
- 1) The OS/2 port refuses to accept input from stdin, for stuff like "Y/N"
- prompts this would be nice for those of us developing shells. (I have my
- suspicions why direct keyboard input is required to create the random
- seed(s), but for ordinary input this shouldn't be necessary.)
-
- this is true on UNIX, too. That is because the Y/N code opens the tty
- to read the values. I agree that there should be some way to override this.
- Which particular cases are you trying to shell around?
-
- 2) Output to a pipe does not work - PGP tries to rename the "file"
- it finds, it cannot, it prompts for a new filename. (Simply allowing
- an overwrite option should work wonderfully... preferably as a
- default or a command line parameter.)
-
- What do you mean? I've never had much problem with this.
-
- -derek
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