How to decode a series of articles?

How to decode a series of articles?

[Qing Xiu]

Sometime users post articles (or series of articles) that have been
encoded in some way
or other, such as :
******************[1/3];
******************[2/3];
******************[3/3]
I don't know how can I decode them into a single file?
Thanks a lot!

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Qing Xiu" <qing.xiu@163.com> writes:

> I don't know how can I decode them into a single file?

Try using the `X u' command.

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Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Qing Xiu]

I'm sorry, This doesn't works, When I press "X u", there are such
messages:

Loading gnus-uu...done
Getting article 2778, 1/2...
gnus-uu: Couldn't uudecode
Getting article 2779, 2/2...
Wrong type file

any suggestions?Thanks!

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Qing Xiu" <qing.xiu@163.com> writes:

> I'm sorry, This doesn't works, When I press "X u", there are such
> messages:
>
> Loading gnus-uu...done
> Getting article 2778, 1/2...
> gnus-uu: Couldn't uudecode
> Getting article 2779, 2/2...
> Wrong type file

Perhaps the messages aren't uuencoded?  What kind of messages are
they? 

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Qing Xiu]

I don't know what kind of type they are. But when I use M$ OE to decode
them, it works perfectly well.
Also I use "X u","X m","X s",but none works. there is always a message
such as "wrong file typw".Please help me.

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Miles Bader]

"Qing Xiu" <qing.xiu@163.com> writes:
> I don't know what kind of type they are. But when I use M$ OE to decode
> them, it works perfectly well.

I would help if you gave an example...  I'm not even sure what you mean
by "decode."

[Note that OE is in general completely screwed up with respect to
character set support etc; however a bogus article posted using OE can
sometimes be read by a OE user on a similar system (but nobody else).]

-Miles
-- 
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Mark Hood]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> "Qing Xiu" <qing.xiu@163.com> writes:
> > I don't know what kind of type they are. But when I use M$ OE to decode
> > them, it works perfectly well.
> 
> I would help if you gave an example...  I'm not even sure what you mean
> by "decode."

My guess is that they're yenc-encoded files in a binary newsgroup, which
gnus-uu doesn't support (at least in my version of emacs).  

If so, search gnu.emacs.sources for some stuff I posted a couple of years ago
to decode usenet yenc messages.  The version I posted is synchronous and
decodes in elisp, so it's slow, but adequate for the occasional binary.  (I
also have a faster asynchronous version that uses an external Java program to
decode, but it's ugly and not suitable for posting).

-- Mark

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.org> writes:

> My guess is that they're yenc-encoded files in a binary newsgroup, which
> gnus-uu doesn't support (at least in my version of emacs).  

CVS Gnus supports it, at least.  (I don't remember when it was added...)

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Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Apr 13 2006, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.org> writes:
>
>> My guess is that they're yenc-encoded files in a binary newsgroup, which
>> gnus-uu doesn't support (at least in my version of emacs).  
>
> CVS Gnus supports it, at least.  (I don't remember when it was added...)

,----[ (info "(gnus)Oort Gnus") ]
|    * Single-part yenc encoded attachments can be decoded.
`----

I never tried though and I don't know if it works with `X ...'.  And
we don't know which Gnus version Qing Xiu uses.  Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7
used by Mark surely doesn't.

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Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Qing Xiu]

Thanks you guys. My gnus version is 5.11, and my Emacs version is
22.050.1. The newsgroup I visited recently is " news.newsfan.net" ,
it's a chinese newsgroup. There are some attachment groups on this
server. Anyone can have a test on this server, you can post/see the
articles with anonymous account.

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Floyd L. Davidson]

"Qing Xiu" <qing.xiu@163.com> wrote:
>Thanks you guys. My gnus version is 5.11, and my Emacs version is
>22.050.1. The newsgroup I visited recently is " news.newsfan.net" ,
>it's a chinese newsgroup. There are some attachment groups on this
>server. Anyone can have a test on this server, you can post/see the
>articles with anonymous account.

Here is another example, which I'd like to know how to decode and view.

In newsgroup alt.binaries.photo.original people sometimes slit a
large jpeg image into multiple parts, which show up like this in
the summary buffer (edited to shorten the line length)

[3050: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (2/3)
[1083: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (3/3)
[3052: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (1/3)

Note that the articles are not necessarily in order, and are not necessarily
consecutive either.

How does one mark the three articles, and get gnus to display the resulting
image?

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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@apaflo.com

Re: How to decode a series of articles?

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Apr 14 2006, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

> [3050: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (2/3)
> [1083: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (3/3)
> [3052: Pete... ] ... "Waterfall, Ochil hills, Scotland 12.jpg" yEnc (1/3)
>
> Note that the articles are not necessarily in order, and are not necessarily
> consecutive either.
>
> How does one mark the three articles, and get gnus to display the resulting
> image?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Decoding Articles") ]
| Sometime users post articles (or series of articles) that have been
| encoded in some way or other.  Gnus can decode them for you.
| 
| [...]
| 
|    For example: If you choose a subject called `cat.gif (2/3)', Gnus
| will find all the articles that match the regexp `^cat.gif
| ([0-9]+/[0-9]+).*$'.
| 
|    Subjects that are non-standard, like `cat.gif (2/3) Part 6 of a
| series', will not be properly recognized by any of the automatic viewing
| commands, and you have to mark the articles manually with `#'.
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Setting Process Marks") ]
| `M P s'
|      Mark all articles in the current series (`gnus-uu-mark-series').
| 
| `M P S'
|      Mark all series that have already had some articles marked
|      (`gnus-uu-mark-sparse').
| 
| `M P a'
|      Mark all articles in series order (`gnus-uu-mark-all').
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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