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Subject: Re: Error while decoding: (void-function base64-decode-region)
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>>>>> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>>>> As far as I can tell, I haven't got base64-decode-region anywhere.
>>>> I've got base64-decode, base64-decode-chunk, and
>>>> base64-decode-string, but not base64-decode-region.
>> 
>>>> Is there a workaround/fix?
>> 
>>> Does it help to update your mail-lib package?
>> 
>> Huh?  "mail-lib", what's that?

> It's the XEmacs package containing base64.el.  Maybe the version you
> got is old and didn't include base64-decode-region?  Gnus used to ship
> a modern base64.el, but I think it has been moved to gnus/contrib/ now.

locate-library on base64 gave me a site-lisp version of base64.el
which was from at least May 19 1998 (it may be older, but it wasn't
newer). 

After I moved that away it found the base64.elc delivered with xemacs,
and everything was dandy.

Thanx!