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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