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- From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person
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- Organization: UIUC College of Agriculture
- References: <1993Jan23.192239.14870@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <WARLORD.93Jan24213831@snorkelwacker.mit.edu> <1k0d74$92c@smurf.sub.org> <C1Fqq9.1wG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <WARLORD.93Jan26150523@toxicwaste.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:21:16 GMT
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- warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) writes:
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- >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?
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- I'm trying to cover as many bases as I possibly can. Although for key
- creation I'm afraid I'm going to be limited to bringing the child process to
- the forground and letting the user interact on his/her own. All others I
- need to be able to feed as stdio, however.
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- > 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.)
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- >What do you mean? I've never had much problem with this.
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- Maybe this one is OS/2 implementation specific. I'd bust out the source to
- have a look, but I'm a bit constrained already as far as disk space...
-
- Don
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