Re: Unzipping PGP

[fadden@highland.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article 004220MOTMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, <MOTMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> () writes:
>Angel seems to work but it produces a file that is just as unreadable
>as the original and is considerably smaller than the original. The
>original file was PGP26DOC.zip, and the smaller "unzipped" file is
>PGP26DI.zip. Has Angel double-zipped the file perhaps, instead of
>opening it?

No, the PGP authors probably did.

The .tar.gz distribution had a second .tar file inside it, along with a
PGP signature.  The idea is, you unzip the file, getting a second archive
and the signature.  You verify the second archive's signature using an older
version of PGP, to make sure that nobody has tampered with it.  Then you
unzip the second archive.

Did you try unzipping the second file?  What did Angel say?  What do the
other programs say is inside the file?

If all else fails, try the .tar.gz version, with the gz->zip converter.

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