* Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT
@ 1998-09-14 23:22 Matt Armstrong
1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed
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From: Matt Armstrong @ 1998-09-14 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm running rgnus-0.31 under Emacs 23.1 under WinNT.
I get a MS Word document delivered to me as a MIME attachment, base64
encoded.
I cursor down to the document and hit <RET> over the document. An
*mm* buffer pops up with a bunch of binary garbage, I save it. It
isn't a valid MS Word document.
The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is
undecided-dos (WinNT, remember). If I manually change the coding
system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine.
Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword
is treated as a binary format?
Also, if I mouse-2 click on the attachment, I get prompted for a
filename just as if I hit <ret>. But, the Word doc gets saved in
base64 -- not decoded. Is this the expected behavior? How can I make
it decode before saving?
--
matta
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* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT
1998-09-14 23:22 Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT Matt Armstrong
@ 1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed
[not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com>
1998-09-16 9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Ed @ 1998-09-15 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Howdy!
Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus working on my win95 machine.
Thaksn!
Ed
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* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT
[not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com>
@ 1998-09-15 18:02 ` Matt Armstrong
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From: Matt Armstrong @ 1998-09-15 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Ed <ejh@idcomm.com> writes:
> Howdy!
>
> Hey can you tell me how to get rgnus-0.31 because I can't get gnus
> working on my win95 machine.
>
> Thaksn!
>
> Ed
Win95 != WinNT, so I'm not sure if my setup will work for you.
Make sure you're running Win32 Emacs 20.3.1
(http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html)
Download pgnus (http://www.gnus.org/pgnus.tar.gz).
Then I run a cygwin32 bash shell to get into an environment something
like Unix (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/).
Untar rgnus (tar xzf rgnus.tar.gz), then build it according to the
instructions (./configure; make). I don't bother installing it with
"make install."
Then add lines like this to your .emacs:
;; pgnus
(let ((prefix "~/Emacs/pgnus-0.31"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat prefix "/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list (concat prefix "/texi")))
Next time you run emacs, M-x gnus should run rgnus.
Hope this helps.
--
matta
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* Re: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT
1998-09-14 23:22 Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT Matt Armstrong
1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed
[not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com>
@ 1998-09-16 9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-09-16 9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com> writes:
> The problem here is that the *mm* buffer's coding system is
> undecided-dos (WinNT, remember). If I manually change the coding
> system in *mm* to "no-conversion," it saves fine.
>
> Is this a bug, or do I have to configure pgnus so application/msword
> is treated as a binary format?
No, all the binary things should be no-conversion. Fix in Pterodactyl
Gnus v0.32.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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