An alternative that I think has been overlooked is sending a combined
format. It is quite easy to do.
If you really want to send HTML for the nice formatting, graphics, etc., the
real size is already there. Adding the plain text generally does not add
much bulk to the message and email clients
I have run under HP-UX and Digital's Tru64, but not under Solaris. The
easiest way I've found is to use the CPAN module. Hopefully it is already
on your system. The syntax is
perl -MCPAN -e shell
If you do not have the CPAN module installed, I'd suggest you install it
first -- manually -- a
Here's a little program. It doesn't delete anything, but you could easily
determine how, I think.
Regards,
Rick Evans
$dir = shift;
opendir( DIR, $dir ) ||
die "Cannot open directory $dir \n$!";
while ( defined($file = readdir DIR) ) {
next if not -T $file;
print "The size o
