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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:25:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
To:        bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV
Cc:        kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PGP ver.5 - is this the way its supposed to be ?
Message-ID:  <199907131825.SAA35648@loki.ideaglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907131747.KAA16844@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> from "Bruce A. Mah" at "Jul 13, 1999 10:47:46 am"

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> If memory serves me right, Kiril Mitev wrote:
> > Just installed security/pgp5, which gives us /usr/local/bin/pgp5, but
> > running it gives the error:
> > 
> > Invoked with unknown symlink
> > 
> > My gut feeling is that is REALLY should be called bin/pgp, anyone care
> > to comment on that ?
> 
> PGP 5 is a little different than PGP 2 in that it's designed to be 
> invoked as a bunch of different commands, rather than one command with 
> a flag to choose its behavior.  So:
> 
> pgpk	Key management
> pgpe	Encrypt (maybe sign too)
> pgps	Sign
> pgpv	Verify

Mmm Hmm

Who gets to fix elm/kdemail/etc, then :-) ?

> 
> In reality, the last three are links to a single binary named pgp5.  All
> four commands have manpages, and they'll all print help information if
> invoked without any flags or filenames.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bruce.
> 
> 

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