Many hours of tinkering has given me a solution. Although I haven't found an explanation for why the GPA product throws a fatal error, I have conquered getting the GnuPG commands to work. I found that the order of the commands and options are significant, and that I needed to surround the directory within "quotes".
'gpg --output C:\DATA\CD.icf --passphrase my_pass --decrypt "C:\DATA\CD.txt" Libby H _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users