bad passphrase error passing it into GPG on Windows 98 using stdin

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

er, I meant to say I confused b < a with echo "a" | b.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Huber" <huber@mclx.com>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 14:27
Subject: Re: bad passphrase error passing it into GPG on Windows 98 using
stdin


> (hopefully this won't show up twice -- I accidentally sent the
> previous one from the wrong address and it's being held for moderator
> approval.)
>
> "Leigh S. Jones, KR6X" <kr6x@kr6x.com> writes:
>
> > --passphrase-fd 0
> >
> > tells gpg that the actual passphrase will be passed into the gpg
> > program through a pipe to port zero; here "passwordfile.txt" would
> > have to be the actual passphrase rather than the name of the file
> > containing the passphrase.
>
> Um, no.
>
> Read up on the "<" operator.  Here's the information from the bash man
> page:
>
>    Redirecting Input
>        Redirection of input causes the file whose name results from
>        the expansion of word to be opened for reading on file
>        descriptor n, or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if n is
>        not specified.
>
>        The general format for redirecting input is:
>
>               [n]<word
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Josh Huber
>
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