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+--- misc/po-mode.el.orig	Sun Jan 30 12:22:43 2000
++++ misc/po-mode.el	Sun Jan 30 12:22:55 2000
+@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
+   :type 'face
+   :group 'po)
+ 
+-(defcustom po-gzip-uuencode-command "gzip -9 | uuencode -m"
++(defcustom po-gzip-uuencode-command "gzip -9 | uuencode"
+   "*The filter to use for preparing a mail invoice of the PO file.
+ Normally \"gzip -9 | uuencode -m\", remove the -9 for lesser compression,
+ or remove the -m if you are not using the GNU version of `uuencode'."