Because the CMS host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an EBCDIC file in ASCII or hexadecimal format, you must interpret it.

The gpg flags --export and --gen-revoke are examples of gpg commands; they tell gpg what to do. To tell gpg how to do things, you can often precede your commands with options. Both --armor and ...