RE: PGP scripting (reprise)

From: Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Date: 01/23/03

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: robert.morson@wdc.com, secprog@securityfocus.com, stuart@cyberdelix.net

    "Robert B. Morson" <robert.morson@wdc.com> writes:

    >Windows 95 and 98 use the same type of DOS as you could buy stand-alone many,
    >many years ago (like DOS 6.22).
    >
    >Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and XP all use a DOS emulation, there is no longer a
    >"division" between DOS and the Windows OS, like there was with 95 and 98. It
    >is fairly common for DOS programs that ran under 95 and 98 to have problems
    >with NT 4.0, 2000 and XP. Has to do with the fact that emulation is not the
    >same thing as the original.

    I've resisted replying so far because I couldn't see that this was relevant
    to a secure-programming list, but in an attempt to kill the thread:

    - I have run PGP for DOS on a variety of NT and Win2K systems without any
      problems.

    - If you really want to run PGP 2.x under NT et al, get one of the Disastry
      versions, which is the 2.x code built as a Win32 binary.

    We now rejoin the debate in progress over Linux vs. Gnu/Linux...

    Peter.

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