Gpg.exe and long dir names

[John Clizbe]

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Colin Brown wrote:
>
>  I am having a bit of trouble with GnuPG and was wondering if anyone
can help.
> I am trying to feed a file into gpg.exe inside a front end I am
writing, the problem being gpg does not like
> the full path name for the file
> eg. C:\Documents and Settings\Person Here\My Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\WindowsApplication2\bin\Debug\file.txt
> And seems to fallover,
> It is fine when it is just the root dir C:\file.txt
>
> I can *hack* around this by copying the file to the root dir before
encrypting and then copy it back prefer not to do that.
>
The trouble is the spaces in the file/path names. A few ideas from my
own battle scars using unix/Gnu/OpenSource stuff in a Win32 world:

1) Put entire filename and path in quotes - "C:\Documents and
Settings\Person Here\My Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\WindowsApplication2\bin\Debug\file.txt"

2) use 'old-style (8.3)' file and folder names -
C:\Docume~1\%USERNAME%\MyDocu~1\Visual~1\Window~2\bin\debug\file.txt

3) If not already using it, try the Nullify build of GnuPG
(http://www.nullify.org)

4) I agree using the root dir is a 'not good' hack. What about using
%TEMP%\file.txt?

5) Unix-fy the path - ie replace '\' with '/' and escape the spaces
with '\' -  "C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/Person\ Here/My\
Documents/Visual\ Studio\ Projects/WindowsApplication2/bin/Debug/file.txt"
Though I think this only works under Cygwin, MinGW32, or Services for
Unix's Interix environments and quotes around the name would be easier.

There may be other hints on MSDN. Try
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/ucmglp.asp

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