w32 installation paths

[vedaal at hush.com]

>Message: 7
>Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:35:17 +0100
>From: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
>Subject: w32 installation paths (was: OK, here goes trouble... re
>I have virtually no experience with Windows administration so
>appreciate any hints.  To sum up how things should work:


>   Question: Just entering "gpg" on the command line won't work 
>then
>   becuase it is not listed in the PATH environment variable.  
>What
>   the usual way to fix this?

just direct the command line to the gnupg directory:

c:\ cd c:\progra~1\gnupg
(windows commandlines don't allow more than 8 character directory 
names,
so after the 6th character, windows/dos uses a '~1')

then, when the command line says:

c:\progra~1\gnupg>

then 
gpg, and all other commands will work
(this is the same way that pgp2.x is still run from a floppy on 
windows without installing it into the path)

a kind linux user (who occasionally posts to this list too),
also developed a way to run gnupg from a floppy without any 
registry entries:

http://www.torduninja.tk/

but it requires a windows file 'cmd.exe' for the floppy

since this file is already on windows systems,
it 'might' be possible to set up gnupg on windows without involving 
registry entries,

but would need 'some experimentation'


vedaal




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