Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!rimfaxe.diku.dk!zonker From: zonker@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Claus Engdahl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How can I send a file through MAIL? Message-ID: <1990Nov28.091434.22703@diku.dk> Date: 28 Nov 90 09:14:34 GMT References: <14578@smoke.brl.mil> <1990Nov27.140554.5318@ssd.kodak.com> <14594@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@diku.dk (The Netnews System) Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen Lines: 20 gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <1990Nov27.140554.5318@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer) writes: >-In article <14578@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >->In article hobbit@shum.UUCP (yoav gonen) writes: >->>How can I send a file through MAIL? >->mail whoever < file >-This will only work for limitted sized non-binary files (i.e. small text >-files). >But it OUGHT to work, if your mail system is worth a damn (many aren't). Many mailsystems resides in the Real-World (Tm), where you have to deal with lowspeed noisy serial links. I think the size currently supported by the eunet backbones is 100.000 characters, but they might have increased it? Claus Engdahl (zonker@diku.dk, postmaster@diku.dk, staff@diku.dk,,,,,) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- My motto is: Honi soit qui pense ;-)