Decoding Articles
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   Sometime users post articles (or series of articles) that have been
encoded in some way or other.  Gnus can decode them for you.

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Uuencoded Articles

Uudecode articles.

Shared Articles

Unshar articles.

PostScript Files

Split PostScript.

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 nonstandard, 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 `#'.