Windows version

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi John Kodak,

At 10:18, 29-10-2000, you wrote:

>I have downloaded the two files associated with the Windows
>version.
>I have no idea of where to go from here.

First of all, think carefully if you do want to install GnuPG on Windows. If you are expecting a Graphical Client (GUI) in which you basically point-and-click, then I suggest that you get PGP instead. GnuPG, in its Windows version, is a (MS-DOS) Command Line program.

If you _do_ want to install GnuPG anyway, then great!  :)

1) Extract the contents of the ZIP file into C:\GNUPG using a program like WinZip

2) Read the Friendly Manual that John Saylor talked about. It is called "The GNU Privacy Handbook (English)" and it is available at  http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

3) The commands available at the Privacy Handbook listed above are for Unix (Linux and others), but they work the same in Windows. Basically, you open an MS-DOS Prompt and type the commands that are listed there. So, to generate a key, for example, you'd go to the GNUPG directory, in the DOS shell, like this:
cd\gnupg
and then you'd type:
gpg --gen-key

Don't try to use the keyserver commands, though - they don't work (yet) in the Windows version.


Good luck!  :)

Ricardo Dias Marques
ricmarques@spamcop.net

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