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WHAT'S IN THIS FILE

FUNCTIONALITY OVERVIEW

PGP Command Line provides a convenient way for you to integrate PGP's strong authentication and encryption features with other applications and automated processes. Examples include encrypting credit card transactions, personnel records, etc.

The following commands provide on-line help for each of the major product areas:
 

Display Options	Command
To display all of the encryption/decryption options	pgp -h
To display all of the key management options	pgp -k
To display all of the group management options	pgp -g

DOCUMENTATION

Also included with this release are the following manuals, which can be viewed on-line as well as printed:

* Introduction to Cryptography

* PGP Command Line User's Guide

Each document is saved in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (.PDF). You can view and print these documents with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. PDF files can include hypertext links and other navigation features to assist you in finding answers to questions about your Network Associates product.

To download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the World Wide Web, visit Adobe's Web site at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

For UNIX releases the following online documents are also included:

• PGP.1. This document can be found in the /usr/man/man1 (Linux) /opt/PGPcmdln/man/man1/ (Solaris) directory after the PGP Command Line product has been installed. For more information on how to view the man page, type "man man" (without quotes) at the command prompt (Linux and Solaris).
• PGPCmdLineGuide.ps. This is a postscript file of the Command Line Guide. This document is located in /usr/docs/pgp-6.5.1 (Linux) and /opt/PGPcmdln/docs (Solaris).

KNOWN ISSUES

1. The BATCHMODE flag is not supported when used with a UNIX-style filter.
2. The -m and -w options cannot be used together (pgp -mw <file>). Use pgp -m first.
3. The functionality to preserve a signature from within an encrypted file is not available in this release.
4. The ability to use the +makerandom feature is not supported in this release.

 

Information regarding NAI products that are Year 2000 compliant and its Year 2000 standards and testing models may be obtained from NAI’s website at http://www.nai.com/y2k.

For further information, email y2k@nai.com.
 

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