Re: gnus on winxp

[Frank Schmitt <ich@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Michael Schierl <schierlm-usenet@gmx.de> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <ich@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>
>> I'd suggest you go to http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/ and get the CVS
>> Emacs he compiled for Windows, as this gives you support for images
>> which 21.3 under Windows still lacks.
>
> The precompiled Emacs available from http://nqmacs.sf.net/ seems to
> support images as well - at least I can see Face headers since I
> updated to it. (X-Face does not work due to some missing icontopbm
> binary (or similar). Smilies work as well , but i switched them off as
> soon as I saw one ;-)

You can fix the X-Face problem by installing the appropriate tools from
gnuwin32.sourceforge.net (I think they are in compface and netpbm) and
placing the following in .emacs (it replaces the call to icontopbm which
I couldn't find with xbmtopbm):

       (eval-after-load 'compface 
	 (defun uncompface (face)
	   "Convert FACE to pbm. Modified by Frank Schmitt"
	   (with-temp-buffer
	     (insert face)
	     (and (eq 0 (apply 'call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
			       "uncompface"
			       'delete '(t nil) nil "-X" nil))
		  (progn
		    (goto-char (point-min))
		    (eq 0 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
					       "xbmtopbm"
					       'delete '(t nil)))
		    )
		  (buffer-string)))))))


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