The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus distribution proper. They may later become part of the distribution, or they may disappear altogether. Please note that it is NOT good to just add this directory to `load-path': a number of files in this directory will become part of more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete libraries with all kinds of ill effects (cf. `list-load-path-shadows'). The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you need to a directory which is in `load-path'. Here is an overview of the files: compface.el Provides the ELisp-based uncompface program. It is excellent and practical (actually you can replace lisp/compface.el with it), however the author is missing and the copyright has not been assigned yet. gnus-namazu.el This file defines the command to search mails and persistent articles with Namazu, which is a full-text search engine distributed at , and to browse its results with Gnus. gnus-kill-to-score.el Convert kill files to score files. See (info "(gnus)Converting Kill Files"). one-line-cookie.diff sendmail.el smtpmail.el Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/ directory, to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which may not be provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs distributions (Emacs < 22). XEmacs users should NOT use this, since it doesn't work. See the XEmacs mail-lib module instead. ucs-tables.el This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines functions `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' and `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' which unify the Latin-N charsets. Without `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', composing a Latin-9 reply to a Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a Latin-1 part and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', the outgoing posting can be all Latin-1 or all Latin-9 in most cases. It is harmless to turn on `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode', but `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' may unexpectedly change files in certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N charsets which should not be unified.) This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' by default. vcard.el ;; Local Variables: ;; fill-column: 79 ;; End: