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Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line



Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Jeff Katcher wrote:
>  
> > I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from
> > the command line?
> 
> What about such a simple command:
> mpack -s "Subject of the message" filename recipient_address

Someone at work needed that last year, and I suggested mpack.
She came back saying she couldn't pack two files together!
I eneded up hacking a perl script wrapper to mhn description
lines.

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