-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ THIS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PGP WinFront 3.1 Readme File ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** Read this file BEFORE installing PGP WinFront. It contains important information not found in the help files or in other readme files included in the package. This file contains three sections: MISC NEW FEATURES NOT IN HELPFILE LAST MINUTE NEWS MISC ~~~~ - - Revision Number The revision number of PGP WinFront in this package is: 3.1.0 [initial release of version 3.1] The filename, however, is still PWF30.EXE. - - Assumptions All the documentation assumes that: - You have the PGPATH environmental variable set - PGP.EXE is in your path - You use the supplied PIF files - You are aware of the differences between PGP 2.3a, MIT PGP 2.6, and PGP 2.6ui - You are aware of the fact that that PGP WinFront has SOME features which can only be used with versions of PGP that conform to the MIT PGP 2.6 feature set. - You are aware of the fact that PGP WinFront does not do any PGP.EXE version checking, with the exception of reading in the PGP Public Keyring. This is because 2.3 and 2.6 display different keyring information. - - My Public Key You can get my public key by sending email to me at rbarclay@trentu.ca. Your SUBJECT MUST READ: GET KEY You should get the key within minutes of placing your request. - - Security PGP WinFront is distributed in a zip file called PWF31.ZIP. Inside this zip file is another ZIP file, called PWF.ZIP, and the signature file for PWF.ZIP called PWF.SIG. After you run setup, another signature file will be decompressed. This file is called PWF30.SIG and it is the signature for the decompressed file PWF30.EXE - - Installation To install PGP WinFront, run setup.exe. YOU NEED VBRUN300.DLL! Please don't email me asking for VBRUN300.DLL. Its on virtually every major FTP site. On FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU it SHOULD be in \pub\pc\win3\utils as VBRUN300.ZIP. Also, you can use archie or veronica to locate it. - - Installation Problems If the setup program chokes on a VBX (for example THREED.VBX), do the following: 1) Exit Windows 2) delete the VBX from your system directory ie: del c:\windows\system\threed.vbx 3) Load windows and re-run PGP WinFront Setup. (if you have a newer version of the VBX, then don't delete it, just rename it and copy it over the one that PWF will install) NEW FEATURES NOT IN HELP FILE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Encrypt To Self With this option selected, PWF will automatically encrypt everything with your public key as well. - - Use MIT PGP 2.6 Legal Kludge With this option selected, MIT PGP 2.6 will continue to generate 2.3 compatible files after September 1st, 1994 - - KeyRing View Moves Windows With this option selected, PWF will readjust your screen to fit the main PWF window side-by-side with the keyring window. - - Secret KeyRing Location If your secret keyring is located anywhere but the default location (where PGP is kept), for example on a floppy disk, you can take advantage of this feature. Click in the Sec. Keyring Loc. Box and locate your secret key ring. TO CLEAR THIS BOX: click in it with the RIGHT mouse button. You will then see "" in that box. This means that PGP will use the default secring.pgp file. This feature uses the "+secring=" command line paramter. This command line parameter may not be available in PGP 2.3, in which case this PGP WinFront feature will not be available. - - Public Keyring Location You can also specify an alternate Public KeyRing Location. This keyring will be used by PGP and also will be the keyring read in when you click "KeyRing". This feature uses the "+pubring=" command line paramter. This command line parameter may not be available in PGP 2.3, in which case this PGP WinFront feature will not be available. - - Alternate Public Keyring It is possible for you to set up what is known as an "alternate public keyring." It is expected that this keyring will be used only sparingly, and will probably be very large, for example, the master public keyring available on many FTP sites. These large keyrings are handy to have, but they slow down PGP most of the time because of their large size. In any event, when you press "Keyring", you will notice just above the "Refresh Keyring" button that there is a section with a check box and a text box. When you click in the text box, you will be asked to select an alternate keyring. PWF will then read the contents of that keyring in. When you click the check box "Use Alternate Pub. Keyring", PWF will switch its key list over to the alternate keyring. From then on, every action in the keyring viewer or on the main screen, ie: encrypt, key view, etc... will use the alternate keyring. To remind you of this, the text right above the parameter edit box will change to say "Parameter Edit Box : [Using Alternate Public Keyring]" when the alternate keyring is active. To return to using your default keyring, simply deselect the "Use Alternate Pub. Keyring" check box. The name of your alternate keyring will be saved from session to session, however, the "Use Alternate Pub. Keyring" setting will not be. This is because it is assumed that users will generally want to use their default public keyring most of the time. This feature uses the "+pubring=" command line paramter. This command line parameter may not be available in PGP 2.3, in which case this PGP WinFront feature will not be available. - - Wiper A new option on the Options screen allows you to specify a Wiper. This file will be activated when you press the Delete button instead of the regular erase only DOS delete feature. The internal representation of the Wiper function is: wiper.exe ie: wiper.exe c:\myfile.txt where "wiper.exe" is the file you have defined as your wiper. *** I won't be held responsible for improper wipes, whether or not you follow my instructions *** - - Quick Access This feature allows for simple macros to be created. Click the QA button and inspect the sample macros for an idea of how these work. When you first run PGP WinFront, it will offer to install some sample macros. You should click YES. However, to see these macros, you first need to close PGP WinFront, and then reload it. Then, click QA (Quick Access). - - History PWF keeps a history of the command lines that you have run during the current session. See the History section of QA for information on how this works and on how to disable it if you want to. - - Using PWF.INI instead of WIN.INI to store config info You can copy the PGP WinFront section of the WIN.INI (including the header [PGP WinFront]) and save it in a file called PWF.INI in the directory where PWF31.EXE is located. Then you can remove the PGP WinFront section of WIN.INI. This will not work unless you store the file properly in the same directory as the executable. LAST MINUTE NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - When you select input from clipboard, the input file will ALWAYS be wiped, and the clipboard will be cleared only if you have chosen "Wipe Input File" - - If you repeatedly get an "Error creating Keyring" message, ensure that your PGPPATH variable is correct and that PGP is in your path. The PGPPATH setting is only the PATH to PGP, NOT the PATH and EXE name of PGP. - - If your machine locks up after you exit your editor after choosing "Create", try using a different editor. Some users have had problems with DeskEdit, but not with Notepad, for example. If that still doesn't work, send me email and TURN OFF the "Highlight PGP Created Files" Option. - - If you find a bug, let me know!!! - - I'd really like to hear your comments! I sometimes cannot answer my mail every day (or every week), but I WILL respond. - - Read the help file completely! I like to answer questions from users but please look for the answer in the help file! If some section is not clear, please email me and I'll fix it in the next version. - - Please upload this program to your favourite FTP site or BBS! Compuserve, AOL, Genie and Prodigy users: Please upload this program yo your service as I don't have any accounts there. Users of all these services have access to Internet email so they can all email me for assistance if they need it. - --ross barclay -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQBVAwUBLxxpVdgpRteEZ9JhAQFQ6QH+N51BtcVf1kAFkCRKOrNUci0DYVHJsrSi LRhRcPXhtomlyWWuclOas39wUT/RsiR1LnVf8ZUz15WQJ01hqctAlw== =+3+0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----