Re: How to mail a file?
Hello,
Horacio:
> - How would I gzip and/or tar the file?
Yes.
If you use tar, you can use the `z' option instead of separate compression
(but note that some other versions of tar don't have that).
> Would this process take place before encoding?
Yes.
> - And digital signing and/or encrypting?
pgp - note that pgp will take care of compression and encoding
> (the above two questions refer to "doing it all in one go", ie. just one line
> of commands)
tar cf - file1 file2 | pgp -feas key-id | mail -s subject recipient
> - should graphics files be treated as binaries, as far as
> uuencoding/mimencoding is concerned?
Yes, but if you are encrypting, you don't need to worry about that.
HTH
Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
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