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From: gtoal@nyx.cs.du.edu (Graham Toal)
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Subject: [386BSD] Has anyone ported pgp20?
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Date: 22 Nov 92 23:56:56 GMT
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I tried compiling pgp20 today - found one major problem: it uses toupper
and tolower but doesn't check their args are in range first with isalpha
and islower/isupper.  Actually I was amazed that gcc on 386bsd supported
that bogus old definition of toupper/tolower, but I guess there's a
reason for it somewhere.

Anyway, after that I was able to read the config file, and decode command-line
options OK.  But I still can't encrypt anything.  Following the instructions
to the letter, and doing all the tests, it seems not to find my encoding
key in my keyring.

If anyone has ported pgp20 please give me some hints!  And if you think it's
possible that what I've compiled *is* working, but it's common to misunderstand
the instructions... tell me that too.  I'm baffled at this stage.

Thanks.

G