* Bug in gnus/uudecode.el (was: Possible bug in TRAMP?)
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@ 2005-03-22 11:48 ` Reiner Steib
2005-03-22 14:55 ` Bug in gnus/uudecode.el Stephen J. Turnbull
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2005-03-22 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: xemacs-beta
On Tue, Mar 22 2005, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Nesbit <andrew@siru.org> writes:
>
> Andrew> OK, thanks for pointing that out. So it seems it's a bug
> Andrew> in some uudecode/uuencode tool on the remote Mac OS X.
>
> No, it's a bug in the uudecode library in Gnus, which assumes that
> 'nil is always a valid coding system pair. In XEmacs it isn't.
Could you be more specific (which function, ...) and maybe provide a
patch making it compatible with XEmacs, please?
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: Bug in gnus/uudecode.el
2005-03-22 11:48 ` Bug in gnus/uudecode.el (was: Possible bug in TRAMP?) Reiner Steib
@ 2005-03-22 14:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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From: Stephen J. Turnbull @ 2005-03-22 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: xemacs-beta
>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> No, it's a bug in the uudecode library in Gnus, which assumes
>> that 'nil is always a valid coding system pair. In XEmacs it
>> isn't.
Reiner> Could you be more specific (which function, ...) and maybe
Reiner> provide a patch making it compatible with XEmacs, please?
*sigh* I hate doing this---I don't have very good reason to suppose
this will work for anyone but me---but I don't have time to do it
right. Here's a patch against current XEmacs package CVS, but it
should be pretty close for this ancient protocol.
Index: lisp/uudecode.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/gnus/lisp/uudecode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 uudecode.el
--- lisp/uudecode.el 28 Sep 2004 02:21:21 -0000 1.3
+++ lisp/uudecode.el 22 Mar 2005 14:51:09 -0000
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ (defun uudecode-decode-region-external
(make-temp-name "uu")
uudecode-temporary-file-directory))))
(let ((cdir default-directory)
- default-process-coding-system)
+ (default-process-coding-system '(binary . binary)))
(unwind-protect
(with-temp-buffer
(insert "begin 600 " (file-name-nondirectory tempfile) "\n")
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