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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Yup.  I did some timing of this (wrt base64 decoding) in tm when we
> were first integrating it with XEmacs.  It wasn't so much that large
> attachments were slow to decode, but that funneling things through
> mmencode was *much* faster.

Has there been any discussion on including base64 support in
Emacs/XEmacs proper?  It seems like a natural thing to do to me...
`base64-buffer-region' and `unbase64-buffer-region', or whatever.

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