Newbie on Win platform

[Clough, Samuel]

Just read the man page.  It's in the zip as gpg.man.  Then, if you also need
a gui follow instructions below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Greg Strong [SMTP:gw_goldwing@gwstrong.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 26, 2002 3:38 PM
> To:	gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Cc:	Art Salwin
> Subject:	Re: Newbie on Win platform
> 
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> Hello Art,
> 
> Friday, July 26, 2002, 1:42:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
> AS> Are there any detailed installation/operating instructions for Windows
> AS> platform? I've downloaded the software, unzipped it, and tried running
> AS> the gpg.exe file. It would be nice to see the prompt listing the 4
> AS> options shown in the handbook. Instead it came back with: "Go ahead
> and
> AS> type your message ..." It seems to accept typing input, but I don't
> see
> AS> how to terminate the message.
> 
> I seems to me you have just the GPG or PGP back end installed.  However
> from
> your subject "Newbie on Win platform" you need a front-end application as
> well.  Since you refer to yourself as a "Newbie" I will give you same
> reply
> as others previously.
> 
> Download latest GnuPG which is a development version which works fine at
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/binary/gnupg-w32-1.1.90.zip (975k) with
> signature file at
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/binary/gnupg-w32-1.1.90.zip.sig
> 
> Download GPGshell per link at http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/gpgshell.html
> version 2.45. Their are install instructions for GPGshell & GnuPG on this
> site that should get you operational.
> 
> For beginners join Yahoo groups
> mailto:PGP-Basics-OT-subscribe@yahoogroups.com with home page at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PGP-Basics. The PGP-Basics group will answer
> any questions to get you off to the races. <g>
> 
> Other here may have different advice, but this was the path I used to
> get started a few months ago. I haven't regretted it.
> 
> - -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Greg Strong                     
> TB! v1.62/Beta1 on Windows 98  
> 
> PGP public keys:
> mailto:pgpkeysML@gwstrong.com?subject=0xB1FE63FA&Body=Please20send20keys
> 
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