GnuPG on Startup-Floppy / DOS mode error

[Brian Minton]

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:30:44AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, kew@pobox.com wrote:
>=20
> >         start-up floppy, formatted with all the system files, and
> >         though I could boot it GnuPG refuses to run saying "This
> >         program cannot be run in DOS mode".
>=20
> Well, this is the W32 port which does mean it runs on Windows 95
> kind of OSes but not on plain (Free|PC|MS|DR)DOS.  There might be a
> port to plain DOS availabe but I don't recommend it.
>=20
> Try to use a one floppy GNU/Linux distribution (I know that this
> will be hard) or use another POSIX like kernel to port GnuPG.  I can
> help you if you decide to work on a small VSTa (www.vsta.org) based
> GnuPG floppy.

I personally reccomend tomsrtbt, it is one of the best.  I think you might
also want to look into byld, http://byld.sourceforge.net

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Brian Minton
minton@csc.smsu.edu
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