On 08/01/2020 7:03 a.m., mark lewis : August Abolins wrote:


 ml> seems to me that the standard CTRL-Z should work as it has done
 ml> for the last 30+ years... i've never used the software in
 ml> question so that is definitely an eWAG

It's been a long time since I maybe should have known how to end input
to stdin.

My first venture with pgp was on a MicroVAX utilizing one of the BSD
variants. I flip-flopped between a handful of shells.  I did a lot of
command line operations all the time. I used pgp and entered messages
right at terminal quite bit.  ^D was probably second-nature, but I don't
remember that detail.

I've never used the DOS/Win implementations of gpg/pgp before either.

DOS needs to do things differently.

But it seems to me that if gpg is launched without any parameters, it
should output a message "Missing options" or something like that and
then terminate.

When it detects valid parameters/options, and spits out:

 gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...

...it should also include something like "When finished with your
message, enter ^Z" to complete.

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