w32 installation paths

[Maxine Brandt]

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Vedaal wrote:
> Subject: Re: w32 installation paths 
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org

> 
> 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'
> 
There were two reasons I included cmd.exe (NT systems) or command.com (all
Windows systems ) on the GPG TO GO floppy.

The first was simply to avoid leaving traces of their usage in the Start > Run history, but the 
second reason may have some bearing on this thread. MS-DOS assumes that all files are
located in the working directory, so if you're in A: (the floppy) it assumes everything is on the
floppy and there's no need to include the path to the files you want to encrypt or decrypt.

However, the GnuPG home directory is an exception to this rule and you have to specify its
location in the command line even when it's on the floppy. I assume that this exceptional 
behaviour is coded into the gpg binary. I considered working on the code to change this
default home directory location to the floppy, but that wouldn't help those using GPG TO GO
on a USB stick, so I left it as it was.

One thought that occurs to me is to install the binaries and gpg.conf in the same directoy as 
cmd.exe (or command.com) so that gpg could pick up locations of keyrings etc from the
configuration file (which would be the default "home"). But this is "Windows-think" and might 
cause more problems than it solves,considering gpg is designed for cross-platform compilation
and Windows is bottom of the list of priorities.

In any case, for those who have problems creating registry keys to use GPG on work machines,
GPG TO GO is a viable solution.

Salut

Maxine 



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> Concerned about your pr
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