Re: Bug in gnus/uudecode.el
>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib
<reinersteib+gmane(a)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")
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