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- INTRO
-
- MPI.EXE is freeware!
-
- MPI.EXE provides a menu driven interface for dos based offline mail
- readers to use pgp. It saves having to remember the various pgp
- command line options, and provides for selecting which keys to use,
- from a a list of the keys on your keyrings. MPI may be used with any
- mail reader that supports an external editor, or spell checker.
-
- The distribution should include the following files ...
- FILE_ID.DIZ - description for bulletin board systems.
- MPI.EXE - the program (obvious eh?)
- MPI.DOC - take a wild guess!<g>
- MPI.SIG - The pgp signature of MPI.EXE, made using keyid 0x9E670369
- HODGINS.ASC - My pgp public key, which when added to your keyring, should
- show a valid signature from Peter Gutmann <pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>,
- whose key is included with the pgp distribution files.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- First add my key to your public keyring using ...
-
- PGP HODGINS.ASC
-
- If the signature from Peter is not present, or invalid, you may get a copy
- of my public key from any of the public pgp key servers, or directly from me.
- (See below for how to contact me).
-
- Check the signature on the exe file using
- PGP MPI.SIG
- and entering MPI.EXE when prompted.
-
- If the signature doesn't show as valid, contact me directly for a good copy.
-
- Copy MPI.EXE to a directory on your path.
-
- If you're going to execute mpi in place of a spell checker, set up your
- reader to execute mpi.exe, passing the name of the message file as the
- first (and only) parameter. If you want to still be able to use an external
- spell checker, create a file called spellchk.bat, and put it in the same
- directory as mpi.exe. When selected, the batch file will be executed,
- passing the name of the message file, as the first parameter. Note that
- the batch file name must be spellchk.bat, and must be located in the same
- directory as mpi.exe, or the option will not be displayed on the mpi
- menu.
-
- If you're going to use the option for an external editor, create a
- batch file that executes the external editor of your choice, followed by
- mpi, making sure that the parm passed to mpi is the message file.
-
- The options on the main menu are pretty self explanatory. Help is available
- on the various selection screens, by pressing the f1 key.
-
- NOTES
-
- The environment variable PGPPATH must be set, so mpi.exe can find your
- key rings. MPI will look the the directories in your path, and in the
- directory pointed to by PGPPATH, for PGP.EXE.
-
- If the message file does not exist, or is empty, only the options to
- post a key, or append a file will be shown.
-
- I'd like to thank John Schofield for writing ez-pgp, which I used until
- I switched to windows 95. When ez-pgp wouldn't work under 95, I decided
- to write my own interface, and decided this would be a good project to
- teach myself c. As this is my first c program, the code is rather messy,
- so I'm not including it in this distribution. I will send a copy to
- anyone who'd like to check it out.
-
- Of course I'd also like to thank Phil Zimmermann, and all of the people
- involved in creating/distributing pgp.
-
-
- CONTACTING ME
-
- I can be reached via the internet at Dave.Hodgins@Westonia.com. The
- fidonet address of Westonia is 1:250/636, and the rime address is 1347.
-
- I also usually read the fidonet public keys echo, the usenet newsgroup
- alt.security.pgp, and the cypherpunks mailing list.
-
- Regards, Dave Hodgins.