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From: Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com>
Subject: Saving binary attachments no work under WinNT
Date: 14 Sep 1998 16:22:58 -700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvhmquvn1.fsf@ultraman.geoworks.com> (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



             reply	other threads:[~1998-09-14 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-14 23:22 Matt Armstrong [this message]
1998-09-15 13:38 ` Ed
     [not found] ` <199809151341.GAA26600@ns.geoworks.com>
1998-09-15 18:02   ` Matt Armstrong
1998-09-16  9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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