From: Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: binary newsgroups
Date: 11 Aug 2005 14:55:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygfr7d05ea8.fsf@invalid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fytgq2mf.fsf@flatsoft.no-ip.info>
Flatman <flatman@swing.be> writes:
> When using binary newsgroups and decoding with gnus-uu-decode-uu-view or
> all other functions in gnus-uu I allways get the error : Wrong type file
Are you sure the file you're trying to decode is uuencoded? Most
binary files on Usenet these days are in yenc format.
I wrote some elisp for dealing with yenc a couple of years ago -- it
should be in the archives for gnu.emacs.sources.
-- Mark
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2005-08-11 8:50 Flatman
2005-08-11 21:55 ` Mark Hood [this message]
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