Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT

Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT

[Matt Armstrong]

I'm running rgnus-0.31 under Emacs 23.1 under WinNT.

I get a MS Word document delivered to me as a MIME attachment, base64
encoded.

I cursor down to the document and hit <RET> over the document.  An
*mm* buffer pops up with a bunch of binary garbage, I save it.  It
isn't a valid MS Word document.

The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is
undecided-dos (WinNT, remember).  If I manually change the coding
system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine.

Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword
is treated as a binary format?


Also, if I mouse-2 click on the attachment, I get prompted for a
filename just as if I hit <ret>.  But, the Word doc gets saved in
base64 -- not decoded.  Is this the expected behavior?  How can I make
it decode before saving?

-- 
matta

Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT

[Ed]

Howdy!

Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus working on my win95 machine.

Thaksn!

Ed

Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT

[Matt Armstrong]

Ed <ejh@idcomm.com> writes:

> Howdy!
> 
> Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus
> working on my win95 machine.
> 
> Thaksn!
> 
> Ed

Win95 != WinNT, so I'm not sure if my setup will work for you.

Make sure you're running Win32 Emacs 20.3.1
(http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html)

Download pgnus (http://www.gnus.org/pgnus.tar.gz).

Then I run a cygwin32 bash shell to get into an environment something
like Unix (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/).

Untar rgnus (tar xzf rgnus.tar.gz), then build it according to the
instructions (./configure; make).  I don't bother installing it with
"make install."

Then add lines like this to your .emacs:

;; pgnus
(let ((prefix "~/Emacs/pgnus-0.31"))
  (add-to-list 'load-path (concat prefix "/lisp"))
  (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list (concat prefix "/texi")))

Next time you run emacs, M-x gnus should run rgnus.


Hope this helps.

-- 
matta

Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com> writes:

> The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is
> undecided-dos (WinNT, remember).  If I manually change the coding
> system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine.
> 
> Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword
> is treated as a binary format?

No, all the binary things should be no-conversion.  Fix in Pterodactyl
Gnus v0.32.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen