* lisp/mail/binhex.el: Improve commentary (Bug#7482).

d1ab8d82 · Chong Yidong · c33fa631 · d1ab8d82
Commit d1ab8d82 authored Dec 17, 2010 by Chong Yidong
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--- a/lisp/mail/binhex.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/binhex.el
-;;; binhex.el --- elisp native binhex decode
+;;; binhex.el --- decode BinHex-encoded text

 ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
 ;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@

 ;;; Commentary:

+;; BinHex is a binary-to-text encoding scheme similar to uuencode.
+;; The command `binhex-decode-region' decodes BinHex-encoded text, via
+;; the external program "hexbin" if that is available, or an Emacs
+;; Lisp implementation if not.
+
 ;;; Code:

 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))