Windows commandline abnormality

[Hideki Saito]

This is something I started observing on gpg4win 1.1.0.


It seems like somehow, it is not handling interactive sessions.
For example;

C:\>gpg --edit-key hideki

C:\>gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Secret key is available.

pub 1024D/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
sub 2048g/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E
[ultimate] (1). *****


Invalid command (try "help")


Invalid command (try "help")


Invalid command (try "help")

Command>


and keep entering causes.

C:\>

pub 1024D/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
sub 2048g/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E
[ultimate] (1). *****


Command>
C:\>

pub 1024D/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
sub 2048g/******** created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E
[ultimate] (1). *****


Command>
C:\>

Type in "exit" can pass that entry to the shell can cause shell to end
instead of exiting out of key edit mode.

If I do gpg --version, this is what I get.
Notice some how it is returning to shell once the command is issued. C:\
prompt followed by verson information does not get displayed until I
press enter.

C:\>gpg --version

C:\>gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ****
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

C:\>

This is perhaps another weird problem, but I see
C:\>gpg -sea

C:\>gpg: conflicting commands

C:\>

This always worked for me before.

This is fresh reinstallation of the operating system so I doubt if there
are any third party interference causing this. And there's nothing
specified in gpg.conf.
Anyone has idea what might be causing this, and is there any workaround
I can do?

Thank you.
Hideki