There is always some really fascination software archeology to happen when one starts tapping in to the history of #emacs. Like, `gnus-uu-decode-binhex`. What in the world is that for?
@worldsendless well .... once-upon-a-time pictures and software releases and things came floating by as encoded text files in the Usenet spool directory. You had to fish them out before they expoired, hope you had all the pieces of the .tar file and use uu-decode to turn the "binhex"-ed ASCII files back into binaries (pictures, etc). I think I got X11 that way...
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@worldsendless well .... once-upon-a-time pictures and software releases and things came floating by as encoded text files in the Usenet spool directory. You had to fish them out before they expoired, hope you had all the pieces of the .tar file and use uu-decode to turn the "binhex"-ed ASCII files back into binaries (pictures, etc). I think I got X11 that way...