trying to export the sender key

[Timo Schulz]

On Sun Apr 13 2003; 17:47, Don Patou wrote:

>  "joe@debian:~/keys/recipient$ gpg --homedir  -a --export recipient"
> 
> I get a:
>  "gpg: keyblock resource `-a/secring.gpg': file open error
> gpg: keyblock resource `-a/pubring.gpg': file open error
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported"
> 
> any suggestions?

Yes... homedir needs an argument. Now you set your home directory to '-a'
which does not work.

Try "gpg --homedir /home/joe/.gnupg -a --export recipient"
(And replace the directory with the GPG dir on your machine!)


        Timo 

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