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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.

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