PGP Message Signatures on FAQs

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James D. Murray (jdm@netcom.com)
Sun, 1 Jan 1995 10:12:05 -0800 (PST)

With the January release of my FAQ I wish to include a PGP message
signature for the typical reasons. When I ran my plain-text FAQ file
through PGP a la:

pgp -sat +clearsig=on <filename>

I was not pleased to see that each 30 column long line of hyphens separating
each entry (as speced by RFC 1153) had a space added at the second column,
as in before:

------------------------------

and after:

- -----------------------------

I realize why this is done, but I would like to know if 1) there is a way to
keep PGP from modifying a text file in this way and, 2) will this modification
screw up any readers/converters that require RFC 1153 format?

I notice this "feature" appears in the linux FAQ which is PGP message
signed and RFC 1153 compliant.

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James D. Murray  POB 70			Tel: 714.288.0141
jdm@netcom.com   Orange, CA 92666 USA	Fax: 310.407.5257


Maintainer of the Graphics File Formats FAQ on comp.graphics and
coauthor of the O'Reilly book "Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats".

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