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Re: Help: Are there tools/scripts to easily email binary files?

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From: davecb
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:15
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You asked:
| Are there scripts/tools available to automatically email binary/tar files,
| that first use compress/uuencode/split before mailing the files, and that
| then reverse the process for incoming files, stripping the mail headers
| in the process? We sometimes have to send large binary files (> 1 Mbyte),
| and so far we've been using DHL courier services. 

  The most elegant ones are mailto (creates MIME multi-media mail) and
metamail (reads it).  MIME includes multi-part multimedia mail, so
avoids the old split-and-compress-and-uuencode drudgrey. 
  Available on an archive server near you (or send me mail and
say how big a message your neighbours will let me send you per day,
and I'll mail it).

  A word of caution: your upstream neighbours at ub4b.buug.be may want you
to pay for a monster feed if you start mailing binaries around!

-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | Stupidity is evil waiting to happen.
CANADA. 416-223-8968  |               -- Clay Bond
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