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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: gnus-mime-copy-part and saving
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:42:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfxxhdyx.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)

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I'm contemplating the way gnus-mime-copy-part ("c" on a button) sets
up the buffer it shows.

With a random 8-bit application/octet-stream, like r.gz below, viewing
with "c" and then attempting to save with C-x C-s prompts for a coding
system, and it seems even no-conversion doesn't give the right bytes.

r.gz for instance should be 393 bytes, as revealled by an "o" save.
And this is all of course with auto-compression-mode off so the zany
jka-compr stuff doesn't get involved.

Is there some magic gnus-mime-copy-part could or should do to give a
buffer which is save-able?  I guess making it unibyte (before
inserting) would work, but I expect that's not good for viewing proper
text files or stuff.


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             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-02  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02  1:42 Kevin Ryde [this message]
2003-04-12 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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