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From: n8735053@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Iain "Niai" Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,wwu.general
Subject: Re: How can I send a file through MAIL?
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.193518.23239@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 19:35:18 GMT
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hobbit@shum.UUCP (yoav gonen) writes:
>How can I send a file through MAIL?

Now let's see if I can do this off the top of my head...
(see uuencode and other man pages for further info)

$ uuencode file.txt file.txt | mail hobbit@shum.uucp

or a better way for a group of files in the current directory...

$ tar cf file.tar .
$ compress file.tar
$ uuencode filt.tar.Z file.tar.Z | mail hobbit@shum.uucp

and on the other end (after saving the mail message)

$ uudecode file.tar.Z.uue
$ uncompress file.tar.Z
$ tar xf file.tar 


I'm sure I'm going to get flamed if wrong... :-)

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