On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Eric Wood wrote:
>
> > I want to send an binary file attachment to a receipient as in:
> >
> > cat picture.tiff | uuencode | mail -s your_picture [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Anyway, I think I'm missing something. Can anyone help?
> > -eric wood
> >
> >
> Well, I usualy use something like:
>
> uuencode picture.tif | mail -s "your picture" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> but your method should work, except that uuencode may yess about not
> having a name for what it is encodin.
>
>
> You could try:
> cat picture.tiff | uuencode picture.tif | \
> mail -s your_picture [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Mikkel
>
Oops - Looking at this, I see I mistyped my command.
uuencode picture.tif name.tif | \
mail -s "your picture" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(If you forget the second name, uuencode expects input from stdin...)
Mikkel
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