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@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ This is the command line that should be run to view a photo ID. "%i"
will be expanded to a filename containing the photo. "%I" does the
same, except the file will not be deleted once the viewer exits.
Other flags are "%k" for the key ID, "%K" for the long key ID, "%f"
-for the key fingerprint, and "%%" for an actual percent sign. If
-neither %i or %I are present, then the photo will be supplied to the
-viewer on standard input.
+for the key fingerprint, "%t" for the type of image (e.g. jpeg), and
+"%%" for an actual percent sign. If neither %i or %I are present,
+then the photo will be supplied to the viewer on standard input.
</para><para>
The default viewer is "xloadimage -fork -quiet -title 'KeyID 0x%k'
stdin"
@@ -372,9 +372,13 @@ Change the passphrase of the secret key.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>primary</term>
<listitem><para>
- Flag the current user id as the primary one, removes the primary user
- id flag from all other user ids and sets the timestamp of all
- affected self-signatures one second ahead.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+Flag the current user id as the primary one, removes the primary user
+id flag from all other user ids and sets the timestamp of all affected
+self-signatures one second ahead. Note that setting a photo user ID
+as primary makes it primary over other photo user IDs, and setting a
+regular user ID as primary makes it primary over other regular user
+IDs.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>uid &ParmN;</term>
<listitem><para>
@@ -470,7 +474,7 @@ This is a shortcut version of the subcommand "nrsign" from --edit.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
-<term>--default-check-level &ParmN;</term>
+<term>--default-cert-check-level &ParmN;</term>
<listitem><para>
The default to use for the check level when signing a key.
</para><para>
@@ -633,7 +637,7 @@ value can be changed at any time later.
<listitem><para>
Do trust DB maintenance without user interaction. Form time to time
the trust database must be updated so that expired keys and resulting
-changes in the Web-of_trust can be tracked. GnuPG tries to figure
+changes in the Web-of-Trust can be tracked. GnuPG tries to figure
when this is required and then does it implicitly; this command can be
used to force such a check. The processing is identically to that of
--update-trustdb but it skips keys with a not yet defined "ownertrust".
@@ -1391,12 +1395,17 @@ interaction, this performance penalty does not matter in most settings.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
-<term>--no-auto-check-trustdb</term>
+<term>--auto-check-trustdb</term>
<listitem><para>
If GnuPG feels that its information about the Web-of-Trust has to be
updated, it automatically runs the --check-trustdb command
-internally. As this is a time consuming process, this option allow to
-disable the automatic invocation.
+internally. This may be a time consuming process.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term>--no-auto-check-trustdb</term>
+<listitem><para>
+Resets the --auto-check-trustdb option.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -1497,6 +1506,27 @@ Resets the --pgp2 option.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+<term>--pgp6</term>
+<listitem><para>
+Set up all options to be as PGP 6 compliant as possible. This
+restricts you to the ciphers IDEA (if the IDEA plugin is installed),
+3DES, and CAST5, the hashes MD5, SHA1 and RIPEMD160, and the
+compression algorithms none and ZIP. This also disables making
+signatures with signing subkeys as PGP 6 does not understand
+signatures made by signing subkeys.
+</para><para>
+This option implies `--disable-mdc --no-comment --escape-from
+--force-v3-sigs --no-ask-sig-expire --digest-algo MD5 --compress-algo
+1'
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term>--no-pgp6</term>
+<listitem><para>
+Resets the --pgp6 option.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
<term>--openpgp</term>
<listitem><para>
Reset all packet, cipher and digest options to OpenPGP