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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>
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Subject: Re: tm problem?
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>>>>> "Oscar" == Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch> writes:

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Miller <jmiller@bay1.bayserve.net> writes:
Jeff> I was looking at the tm script files and noticed they use mmencode.  I
Jeff> think this is part of the metamail package and not something that comes
Jeff> with XEmacs or standard with most OS'es.  

mmencode will be provided with XEmacs 20.0.  It is installed in `exec-directory'.

Jeff> Didn't tm also come with soemthing that mimiced mmencode?  decode-b I
Jeff> think.  

Jeff> I just foresee a lot of questions coming into the xemacs mailing list
Jeff> with the subject "Missing mmencode"

Oscar> I agree. Setting base64-internal-encoding-limit and
Oscar> base64-internal-decoding-limit to nil should theoretically prevent mmencode
Oscar> from being called, a friend of mine has however reported this did not
Oscar> work. Someone else should try that. 

Oscar> The default value should probably be set to nil or some way of
Oscar> detecting if mmencode is installed should be used as it is much
Oscar> faster than internal encoding/decoding.

Better yet, the mmencode functionality could be provided natively
within XEmacs, and then one could always use internal
encoding/decoding.

Martin

