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NAME
       pmcanon - put a news article in canonical format for signature checking

SYNOPSIS
       pmcanon[file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pmcanon accepts an article from the named file (or standard input if
       not specified), selects certain of the header fields, and performs
       certain transformations intended to defeat unintentional mangling by
       news transport programs. The resulting article is written to standard
       output, and is suitable to have a PGP signature generated or checked
       for it.

       The output produced consists (in order) of a sorted list, one per line,
       of newsgroups; the From:, Subject:, and Message-ID: lines, and the body
       of the article (everything after the first empty line).  Other header
       lines are discarded.

       The body is further processed by deleting all blank lines, deleting
       trailing whitespace on lines, prefixing lines beginning with "--",
       "From", "Subject", and a single "." with "- ", ">", ">" and ".",
       respectively. These modifications are safe, in that an article which
       has already had such modifications will fail to meet the criterion to
       have them happen again.  Thus what was used as input when a signature
       was generated should still be the same when checked for validity, even
       if some of these changes have happened along the delivery path.

SEE ALSO
       pmapp(1), pmcheck(1), PGP manual.

AUTHOR
       Greg Rose, RoSecure Software.

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