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gnus: Saving Articles
gnus: Summary Buffer
gnus: Article Treatment
3.17 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 (
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 ‘#’.