* Bug in gnus/uudecode.el (was: Possible bug in TRAMP?) [not found] ` <87is3k70im.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> @ 2005-03-22 11:48 ` Reiner Steib 2005-03-22 14:55 ` Bug in gnus/uudecode.el Stephen J. Turnbull 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Reiner Steib @ 2005-03-22 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: xemacs-beta On Tue, Mar 22 2005, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Nesbit <andrew@siru.org> writes: > > Andrew> OK, thanks for pointing that out. So it seems it's a bug > Andrew> in some uudecode/uuencode tool on the remote Mac OS X. > > No, it's a bug in the uudecode library in Gnus, which assumes that > 'nil is always a valid coding system pair. In XEmacs it isn't. Could you be more specific (which function, ...) and maybe provide a patch making it compatible with XEmacs, please? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Bug in gnus/uudecode.el 2005-03-22 11:48 ` Bug in gnus/uudecode.el (was: Possible bug in TRAMP?) Reiner Steib @ 2005-03-22 14:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Stephen J. Turnbull @ 2005-03-22 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: xemacs-beta >>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes: >> No, it's a bug in the uudecode library in Gnus, which assumes >> that 'nil is always a valid coding system pair. In XEmacs it >> isn't. Reiner> Could you be more specific (which function, ...) and maybe Reiner> provide a patch making it compatible with XEmacs, please? *sigh* I hate doing this---I don't have very good reason to suppose this will work for anyone but me---but I don't have time to do it right. Here's a patch against current XEmacs package CVS, but it should be pretty close for this ancient protocol. Index: lisp/uudecode.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/gnus/lisp/uudecode.el,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -p -r1.3 uudecode.el --- lisp/uudecode.el 28 Sep 2004 02:21:21 -0000 1.3 +++ lisp/uudecode.el 22 Mar 2005 14:51:09 -0000 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ (defun uudecode-decode-region-external (make-temp-name "uu") uudecode-temporary-file-directory)))) (let ((cdir default-directory) - default-process-coding-system) + (default-process-coding-system '(binary . binary))) (unwind-protect (with-temp-buffer (insert "begin 600 " (file-name-nondirectory tempfile) "\n") -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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