Update: Windows commandline abnormality

[Hideki Saito]

Just so I can make it clear, let me annotate where I pressed enter.
(where [enter] is shown)
> 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 [enter]
>
> 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:\> [enter]
>
> 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> [enter]
> C:\> [enter]
>
> 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> [enter]
> C:\> [enter]
>
> 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 [enter]
>
> 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 
> [enter]
> C:\>
>
> This is perhaps another weird problem, but I see
> C:\>gpg -sea [enter]
>
> C:\>gpg: conflicting commands
> [enter]
> 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
>
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