passphrase-fd works on linux but not windows

[Frank Calfo]

That did it!  Thanks for the quick response!

At 05:32 PM 9/26/2003 -0400, Todd wrote:
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>Frank Calfo wrote:
> > but the mirror of this does not work when running on Windows 2000 - it
> > keeps returning error: bad passphrase (even though passphrase passed in is
> > correct)
> >   echo %1 | gpg --homedir %2 --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0
> > --always-trust --encrypt --sign --recipient %3 %4
>
>I recall reading sometime back on this list that on windows you need to put
>the | directly after the passphrase. Windows apparently sends the trailing
>space along to gnupg, which will make it a bad passphrase.  So try something
>like this:
>
>     echo %1| gpg --homedir %2 --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 \
>         --always-trust --encrypt --sign --recipient %3 %4
>- --
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