Re: binary newsgroups

[Mark Hood]

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