For anyone who is interested, I found a solution and will post it for anyone else having problems working with open3. I got the following code to work on linux, but am still trying to figure out how to get it to work on my win2k box.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# pgp_test.pl <user_id> <passphrase>
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;

my $encrypt_opts = '+force +batchmode +verbose=1 -fea';
my $decrypt_opts = '+force +batchmode +verbose=1 -f';

my $key        = shift || 'zzSPECTREz';
my $passphrase = shift || '###MYSECRET KEY##';

sub encrypt () {
  my ($user_key, $text) = @_;
  my $pid = open3(\*PGPIN,\*PGPOUT,\*PGPERR,"pgp $encrypt_opts $user_k
+ey");
  print PGPIN $text;
  close (PGPIN);
  my $output = join ('',<PGPOUT>);
  return $output;
}

sub decrypt () {
  my ($text) = @_;
  my $pid = open3(\*PGPIN,\*PGPOUT,\*PGPERR,"pgp $decrypt_opts -z '$pa
+ssphrase'");
  print PGPIN $text;
  close(PGPIN);
  my $output = join ('',<PGPOUT>);
  return $output;
}

print "\nTEST PGP\n\n";
print "ENTER TEXT TO ENCRYPT: ";
my $data = <STDIN>;

my $enc_data = &encrypt ($key,$data);
print "\nDATA ENCRYPTED:\n$enc_data\n\n";

my $dec_data = &decrypt ($enc_data);
print "DATA DECRYPTED:\n$dec_data\n\n";
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zzSPECTREz

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