gpg --search-keys correct behaviour?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat May 6 18:09:03 CEST 2006


On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:41:42PM +0000, Dick Gevers wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2006 09:29:29 -0400, David Shaw wrote about Re: gpg
> --search-keys correct behaviour?:
> 
> >On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:14:36AM +0000, Dick Gevers wrote:
> >> When I give the command gpg --search-keys <somename>, I get an x number
> >> of results and if more than 10 (for example), one sees the question:
> >> 
> >> Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit >
> >> 
> >> However, when the last of the available names has been printed the same
> >> question is posed again. I would expect (and believe I saw in previous
> >> versions) that the question is not repeated after the last name.
> >> 
> >> I know I can type "q" for quit, but it seems not elegant.
> >> 
> >> I am using gpg version 1.4.3.
> >
> >I just tried this, but it works for me.  Can you give me an example of
> >it not working?  That is, give me the keyserver you were searching
> >against, and the name you were searching for.
> 
> Sure: keyserver hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> I tried with 'barth' (271 results) and 'gevers' (33 results) and the
> behaviour is as above each time.
> 
> But if I try keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net and search for 'gevers' I get
> the same behaviour.

I still can't duplicate it.  Can anyone here duplicate this?

David



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