On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:17:09 -0400 (EDT), Atom 'Smasher' said: > so, how do i capture and/or redirect data being sent directly to /dev/tty? You shall not do this. gpg comes with an interface designed to be used by other programs; the tty output is for humans only. If you need to do this for debugging, use script(1) or expect(1). Werner