base64-decoder-program question

base64-decoder-program question

[John H Palmieri]

GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27
1998 on darwin 

Pterodactyl Gnus v0.61

uname -a: SunOS ahoward 5.5 Generic_103093-23 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10

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Okay, maybe I'm just being dense, but I can't figure out how to use
the variable base64-decoder-program so that gnus does what I want.  If
I want to decode some mime by hand, I run 'mimencode -u' and it
works just fine.  So I did

  (setq base64-decoder-program "mimencode"
        base64-decoder-switches " -u ")  ;; I've tried it with and
                                         ;; without the spaces.

But now things aren't being decoded correctly.  When I try to view a
jpg or gif file, for instance, gnus seems to be passing the (encoded)
mime to xv, rather than the decoded picture--xv opens up with a text
window showing the mime stuff, not the picture.

If I set base64-decoder-program to nil, then gnus does a fine job
decoding, but I was hoping to speed things up a bit.

What am I doing wrong?

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John H. Palmieri
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Re: base64-decoder-program question

[Hrvoje Niksic]

John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:

> GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27
> 1998 on darwin 
> 
> Pterodactyl Gnus v0.61
> 
> uname -a: SunOS ahoward 5.5 Generic_103093-23 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
> 
> **********
> 
> Okay, maybe I'm just being dense, but I can't figure out how to use
> the variable base64-decoder-program so that gnus does what I want.  If
> I want to decode some mime by hand, I run 'mimencode -u' and it
> works just fine.  So I did
> 
>   (setq base64-decoder-program "mimencode"
>         base64-decoder-switches " -u ")  ;; I've tried it with and
>                                          ;; without the spaces.

Try this:

    (setq base64-decoder-program "mimencode"
          base64-decoder-switches '("-u"))

This will be covered by the FAQ.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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