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(gnus)Decoding Articles
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.
Uuencoded Articles- Uudecode articles.
- Shell Archives
- Unshar articles.
- PostScript Files
- Split PostScript.
- Other Files
- Plain save and binhex.
- Decoding Variables
- Variables for a happy decoding.
- Viewing Files
- You want to look at the result of the decoding?
All these functions use the process/prefix convention (Note: Process/Prefix) for finding out what articles to work on, with the extension that a "single article" means "a single series". Gnus can find out by itself what articles belong to a series, decode all the articles and unpack/view/save the resulting file(s). Gnus guesses what articles are in the series according to the following simplish rule: The subjects must be (nearly) identical, except for the last two numbers of the line. (Spaces are largely ignored, however.) 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 `#'.
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