Newbie w/ strange error msg

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:09:59AM -0700, Michael Schweppe wrote:

> I recently installed GnuGP on my PowerBook G4.  The app seems to work
> fine.  I can encrypt/decrypt locally with no issues.
> 
> However a friend recently started using PGP 8 and sent me an encrypted
> message with my public key.  When I went to decrypt it I got this text
> in a pop up dialog box:
> 
> gpg: NOTE: old default options file '/Users/michaels/.gnupg/options'
> ignored
> 
> Can someone tell me what this means?

It means you have two config files.  GnuPG is warning you that it is
ignoring the old one (named "options").  It is unrelated to your
friend using PGP 8.

David
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