Variable: gnus-uu-post-encode-method

gnus-uu-post-encode-method is a customizable variable defined in gnus-uu.el.gz.

Value

gnus-uu-post-encode-uuencode

Documentation

Function used for encoding binary files.

There are three functions supplied with gnus-uu for encoding files: gnus-uu-post-encode-uuencode, which does straight uuencoding; gnus-uu-post-encode-mime, which encodes with base64 and adds MIME headers; and gnus-uu-post-encode-mime-uuencode, which encodes with uuencode and adds MIME headers.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el.gz
;;;
;;; uuencoded posting
;;;

;; Any function that is to be used as and encoding method will take two
;; parameters: PATH-NAME and FILE-NAME.  (E.g. "/home/gaga/spiral.jpg"
;; and "spiral.jpg", respectively.) The function should return nil if
;; the encoding wasn't successful.
(defcustom gnus-uu-post-encode-method 'gnus-uu-post-encode-uuencode
  "Function used for encoding binary files.
There are three functions supplied with gnus-uu for encoding files:
`gnus-uu-post-encode-uuencode', which does straight uuencoding;
`gnus-uu-post-encode-mime', which encodes with base64 and adds MIME
headers; and `gnus-uu-post-encode-mime-uuencode', which encodes with
uuencode and adds MIME headers."
  :group 'gnus-extract-post
  :type '(radio (function-item gnus-uu-post-encode-uuencode)
		(function-item gnus-uu-post-encode-mime)
		(function-item gnus-uu-post-encode-mime-uuencode)
		(function :tag "Other")))