From: "Halvor Kise jr." <HALVORK@sofus.hiof.no>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 01:46:23 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Some PGP problems
Message-ID: <14DAA230C3F@sofus.hiof.no>
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Hello!

I have send an reply to C. Crunch.
I enclosed the "Where to get the latest PGP"-FAQ

- Halvor.


>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to decode a PGP file that was created with Ver 2.6.
>At this time,  I thought that my older ver 2.1c (Running on a
>Mac) would at least be able to decrypt something made from
>a higher version,  running on a PC.   Apparently that is not so.
>
>So,  the next thing I did,   or what any self respecting
>Cypherpunk might so,   is to go out on the net and look
>for a later version to FTP>   Well,   after discovering
>that soda.berkeley.edu don't exist anymore,  I eventually
>found the ftp site where it lives.  ftp.csua.berkeley.edu.
>
>I learn that Mac PGP2.3 exists,  but NO version 2.6
>exists for the Mac.   Is that true?    If not,  then
>where can I get a copy,  so I can decode a message
>created with 2.6?    If ver 2.3 will decode a message
>encoded with 2.6,  then I'm faced with how I can
>extract this Mac file which has a .gz extension.
>Binhex don't seem to decode it.  So,  I now got this
>file named "macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx.gz" on my Mac.    Was
>I supposed to have used some special UNIX itility to
>convert the .gz thingie first?    Please emlighten
>this confused cypherpunker!!! :-)   Or will I even have
>to do all of this because 2.3 is incompatable with 2.6.
>
>C. Crunch

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