From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5526 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Hood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: binary newsgroups Date: 11 Aug 2005 14:55:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671226 27753 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:25 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!uio.no!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:56:08 -0500 Original-Sender: mark@Sappho Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.66.151 Original-X-Trace: sv3-OjdviRYtcF3CvY6wZNt1A2QhMUb/cPtX+uPIWfZU/bFNUVH8Y8kBy/1ChW1wa7fwQ58qTrt/F2YfSle!Nl7ZrLdx6Pz2Vc2L1FjG0mBrae2YwwmEwUSFtvXUtwOSE2iHkO4kekYm9dpo7wqYxi4I+f8GxHOF!agv1KYY= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5668 Original-Lines: 11 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5668 Tue Jan 17 17:35:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5526 Archived-At: Flatman 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