Function: mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar

mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in mh-mime.el.gz.

Signature

(mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar HOST FILENAME DESCRIPTION)

Documentation

Add tag to include anonymous ftp reference to a compressed tar file.

In addition to retrieving the file via anonymous "ftp" as per the command M-x mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp (mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp), the file will also be uncompressed and untarred. You are prompted for the remote HOST and FILENAME and the content DESCRIPTION.

See also M-x mh-mh-to-mime (mh-mh-to-mime).

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mh-e/mh-mime.el.gz
;;;###mh-autoload
(defun mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar (host filename description)
  "Add tag to include anonymous ftp reference to a compressed tar file.

In addition to retrieving the file via anonymous \"ftp\" as per
the command \\[mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp], the file will also be
uncompressed and untarred. You are prompted for the remote HOST
and FILENAME and the content DESCRIPTION.

See also \\[mh-mh-to-mime]."
  (interactive (list
                (read-string "Remote host: ")
                (read-string "Remote filename: ")
                (mml-minibuffer-read-description)))
  (mh-mh-compose-external-type "anon-ftp" host filename
                               "application/octet-stream"
                               description
                               "type=tar; conversions=x-compress"
                               "mode=image"))