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   Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins   
   Re: gpg "live" editor ..OK it's not real   
   09 Jan 20 13:27:43   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 5e171d03   
   REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e160770   
   Hi August,   
      
   On 2020-01-08 18:46:43, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> After the message about the passphrase, I get a seperate window to   
    >> enter my passphrase. And I typed a ^d, after my "How are you doing?"   
    >> line, to end my input (to the shell it's running in).   
      
    AA> THANKS!  That as a good lead.   
      
    AA> And here is my answer.   
      
    AA> Tommi should be able to read it too. (How I did that is a secret!) :)   
      
    AA> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----   
      
   [I'll reply unencrypted. ;)]   
      
    > You wrote in the ecrypted part:   
    >   
    >  WvV> And I typed a ^d, after my "How are you   
    >  WvV> doing?" line, to end my input (to the shell it's running in).   
    >   
    > Ah..  that's a little closer to what I needed.   
    >   
    > Maybe in unix you can do this:   
    >   
    >   How are you doing?^d   
    >   
    > But I can't.   
    >   
    > Maybe in the unix world it works as above.   
    >   
    > But I am Win32/DOS   
    >   
    > I have to do it this way:   
    >   
    >   How are you doing^z   
    >   
    > Hitting the  key is essential, and ^z seems to be the Win/DOS   
    > equivalent to end the stdin properly.   
      
   Whatever works for you! ;)   
      
    > And.. sometimes it seems there is no response.  There is a long delay   
    > before the passphrase window pops up.   
      
   Your machine is busy decoding?   
      
    > The first time I used pgp way back in 1992-1994 it *was* on a unix   
    > machine.   
      
   I've keys from 1993 of which I forgot the passphrase. :-(   
      
   But I do have a working key from 1994! ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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