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Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is there an official minimum emacs version required for ognus? 
> As of cancel-locks being added, my 20.3.1 seems not good enough:

The manual says Emacs 20.3 or XEmacs 20.4 or later, so if those 
doesn't work, it is a bug.

> While compiling the end of the data in file 
> [...]/emacs/ognus/lisp/canlock.el: ** the function 
> base64-encode-string is not known to be defined.
>
> So I can't send news...  Short of persuading the sysadmin to 
> upgrade emacs, which I know he'd put at the bottom of a large 
> pile of jobs, am I restricted to older gnusę?

No.  Does your emacs have `base64-encode-region'?  As a workaround 
put gnus/contrib in your load path.