gpgee command line equivalent - gpg arguments

Question

I want to using gpg in windows batch scripts and i've got little problem. Now I'm using gpgee with nice GUI. I want to use gpg with command line interface.

Gpg script should sign and encyrpt text files, so i try this

gpg -u login -ser key_owner datafile

but, when i try to compare file from this command and gpgee, there are difference, the gpgee file has size is two times larger.

Does anyone know the equivalent gpg options?

Answer 1

gpg always encrypts and also compresses the files. So, any file encrypted with gpg will have a smaller size than the original file. Is GPGee doing any post encryption processing on the file?