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Post by h***@gawab.comDoes anyone know of a way to use PGP 2.6.3i to descrypt such a file
and restore the COMPLETE original file name? Even an add-on EXE file
would help. ANYTHING will help.
Have you actually tested?
I see to recall that the original file name is included in the encrypted
data, so it could be recovered if the software does that. Not sure, but
I think GnuPG will recover it, but you may need it to be built with "idea"
support before it can handle 2.6.3 encrypted data.
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Hello Neil,
Thanks a lot for both emails. I truly appreciate them. The problem is
that neither of them solve my problem. Not completely anyway. And
maybe that isn't necessary. If you understood the complete problem I
face you would probably agree with that statement. Explaining the
COMPLETE problem, though, would take a ton of typing that I'm sure you
don't want to read. I guess I'll be satisfied with what I've already
done. After all, I am very, very close to using an early version of
PGP to do what I want to do.
For your information, however, let me fill you in on a few details I
didn't mention in my first post. Look at part of what I said in that
Post by h***@gawab.comDoes anyone know of a way to use PGP 2.6.3i to descrypt such a file
and restore the COMPLETE original file name? Even an add-on EXE file
would help. ANYTHING will help.
Have you actually tested?
To that question I say that I've tested hundreds of times without
being able to do what I want to do in the way I want to do it. And I'm
not a newbie at ths thing. I'm 74 years old and I've been working with
DOS and the Command Line since the earliest of days. On top of that I
started using PGP since version just before 2.6.2. I know a lot about
both.
I see[m] to recall that the original file name is included in
the encrypted data . . .
Indeed it is included. PGP 2.6.3i even provides a way to extract it
and thereby re-create the original filename. The command line
instruction to do that is
pgp -p filename
A piece of cake! Right? WRONGO! My problem arises when user learns
that the command line above was meant for use with REAL DOS. Today I'm
using WIN XP SP2 and at the command line I don't get REAL DOS. Today
the user of my operating system receives something that kinda looks
like REAL DOS but today's OS does NOT produce exactly the same result.
At least it doesn't produce the result I obtained years ago with REAL
DOS.
Naaaahhhhh, I won't go into detail because doing so would solve
nothing. I suppose I must accept the fact that PGP v2.6.3i is, in
effect, old, obsolete and worn out. Nothing unusual in that. What the
heck . . .? At age 74 the same thing is happening to me. :(
Thanks again,
Bob