(fwd) Re: PMMail2.1 & PGP (fwd)

[John M Price, PhD]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bruce Francis wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:50:01 -0700 (PDT), John M Price, PhD wrote:
> 
> >: How are you viewing the messages ?    I do not use the preview pane
> >: window.   I have to click on the message to open it and when I do I
> >: get  a message requesting my passphrase before the message opens.  If
> >: the passphrase is correct, the message opens decrypted, if not correct
> >: the message opens with encrypted text displayed.
> >
> >I added version 5, Geiger's compile, and it flat does not work.  I have
> >tried opening a message, and it has hung the entire machine on the
> >passphrase window.  (Previously, it was simply blank - manual gave me a
> >'need newer version error.)  If I go to the folder where the message is,
> >and run PGP (5.0) from the command line, it works fine.  I've not tried
> >encryption.
> 
> I've been running Geiger's PGP v5 (OS/2) since (let me check) Nov 98
> and it's been working fine ever since that time.  (I used Geiger's v2.6
> before that, and it worked well also.)   The sequence that you were
> given in Usenet is exactly what do for it to work.

When I do exactly that, the passphrase window comes up, and the machine
dies.  This may be an EMX issue, looking at the popup (attached), or a
call to the EMX library.  I am reasonably sure I have a recent (d I think)
version of EMX.

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10-18-1999  11:49:10  SYS3175  PID 011f  TID 0001  Slot 0049
F:\PGP\PGP.EXE
c0000005
1e272a39
P1=00000001  P2=00000014  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX  
EAX=1e2a8618  EBX=00000000  ECX=0000000a  EDX=00000000
ESI=00000000  EDI=1e2a8618  
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=1fffffff  
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=1fffffff  
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1e2a8692  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0287b2e0  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=1fffffff
EBP=0287b500  FLG=00012246

EMXLIBCS.DLL 0001:00012a39


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