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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, December 8, 2003 8:18:51 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 12:42:50 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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-pgpewrap is a program that is part of the [Mutt] email client package. It is pretty badly documented, not having a manpage or accepting " --help" or " -h" arguments . It has a brief mention in the PGP-Notes.txt file in the mutt documentation: 
+[ pgpewrap] is a program included in the [Mutt] email client package that has neither a manpage nor __ --help__ or __ -h__ screens . The only documentation is a brief mention in the __ PGP-Notes.txt__ file in the mutt documentation: 
  
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-'' This is a little C program which does some command line munging: The first argument is a command to be executed. When pgpewrap encounters a " --" (dash-dash) argument, it will interpret the next argument as a prefix which is put in front of all following arguments.''  
+;: This is a little C program which does some command line munging: The first argument is a command to be executed. When pgpewrap encounters a __ --__ (dash-dash) argument, it will interpret the next argument as a prefix which is put in front of all following arguments. 
  
-'' Example:''  
- '' pgpewrap pgpe file -- -r a b c'' 
+;: Example:  
+ pgpewrap pgpe file -- -r a b c  
+;: will execute:  
+ pgpe file -r a -r b -r c  
+;: This script is needed with PGP 5 and with GPG, since their command line interfaces can 't be properly served by mutt 's format mechanism.  
  
-''will execute:''  
- ''pgpe file -r a -r b -r c''  
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-''This script is needed with PGP 5 and with GPG, since their command line interfaces can't be properly served by mutt's format mechanism.''  
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-The reason you might need to use this is because [GPG] requires multiple recipients to be listed with a " -r" each, such as "-r key1 -r key2 -r key3" while mutt outputs multiple recipients as a list, such as "-r key1 key2 key3" . pgpewrap is used to change mutt's output before executing gpg
+You need this for multiple recipients because [GPG] needs __ -r__ to for each of them , while [Mutt] can only output them as a single list, such as __ key1 key2 key3__ . [ pgpewrap] is used to fix the command line for [GPG] so that __-- -r key1 key2 key3__ becomes __-r key1 -r key2 -r key3__