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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically batch-decoding of all binaries in all groups.
Date: 01 Jul 1998 13:59:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n2atrdda.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:29:45 GMT"

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> (3) This is the part I'm looking for suggestions on:  I want to
>     run something in batch mode that loops through all newsgroups,
>     and within each newsgroup loops through all the articles
>     and automatically decodes them and stores all the results in
>     a directory I have previously specfied.  Multi-part binary
>     articles need to be handled correctly.  As this is being done,
>     all the articles are marked as "read".  Once invoked, his needs
>     to run to completion totally without any manual intervention.

`(gnus-group-read-group nil t group)' will fetch GROUP, and then you
can run `gnus-uu-mark-all' and
`(gnus-uu-decode-uu-and-save nil "~/save-directory/")' and
`gnus-summary-exit'.

And that should basically be it.  With some checks that you land in
the right buffer, and so on.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      reply	other threads:[~1998-07-01 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-01  4:29 Lloyd Zusman
1998-07-01 11:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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