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tajacobs at nvbell

Oct 12, 1999, 2:42 PM

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Diable comment string on a per-message basis?

Is it possible to diable comments on a per-message basis? I'd like to be
able to tell gpg *not* to use the comment string in the options file when
signing or encrypting certain messages.

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Todd A. Jacobs
Network Systems Engineer

mroth at nessie

Oct 12, 1999, 3:01 PM

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Re: Diable comment string on a per-message basis? [In reply to]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> Is it possible to diable comments on a per-message basis? I'd like to be
> able to tell gpg *not* to use the comment string in the options file when
> signing or encrypting certain messages.

Use the following:

gpg --comment "" ... FILE

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Michael

wk at gnupg

Oct 12, 1999, 10:42 PM

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Michael Roth <mroth [at] nessie> writes:

> Use the following:
>
> gpg --comment "" ... FILE

And remember that you can always use sed(1) to remove it later.

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Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

ftobin at uiuc

Oct 13, 1999, 12:02 AM

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Re: Diable comment string on a per-message basis? [In reply to]

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Todd A. Jacobs, at 14:42 on Tue, 12 Oct 1999, wrote:

> Is it possible to diable comments on a per-message basis? I'd like to be
> able to tell gpg *not* to use the comment string in the options file when
> signing or encrypting certain messages.

Use the "--no-comment" argument.

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Frank Tobin "To learn what is good and what is to be
valued, those truths which cannot be
shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
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mroth at nessie

Oct 13, 1999, 5:12 AM

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Re: Diable comment string on a per-message basis? [In reply to]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Frank Tobin wrote:

> > Is it possible to diable comments on a per-message basis? I'd like to be
> > able to tell gpg *not* to use the comment string in the options file when
> > signing or encrypting certain messages.
>
> Use the "--no-comment" argument.

No, that's wrong. The "--no-comment" option does a different thing, for
the normal user total useles. It doesn't affect the comment in
ASCII armored output. Quote from the man page:

--no-comment

Do not write comment packets. This option affects only
the generation of secret keys. Output of option packets
is disabled since version 0.4.2.

To omit the comment in ASCII armored GnuPG output use --comment "" or as
Werner mentioned, remove the comment by hand or sed or something else.

cu
Michael

ftobin at uiuc

Oct 13, 1999, 7:42 AM

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Re: Diable comment string on a per-message basis? [In reply to]

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Michael Roth, at 14:12 on Wed, 13 Oct 1999, wrote:

> > Use the "--no-comment" argument.
>
> No, that's wrong. The "--no-comment" option does a different thing, for
> the normal user total useles. It doesn't affect the comment in
> ASCII armored output. Quote from the man page:

Oops, my bad. That'll teach me to assume things.

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Frank Tobin "To learn what is good and what is to be
valued, those truths which cannot be
shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
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