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Re: Faking NextMail attachments

#390
From: Chris Paris
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:44
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Quite a while ago I wrote a program that lets you send NeXT attachments  
from the command line. It acts as a front end to sendmail, just like UCB  
Mail. It's a mail sender only though. You type your text (or prepare it in  
an editor) as usual, but you can say \attach{filename} to send filename as  
an attachment at that point in the file. There's also a little shell  
script called mailattach that makes it convenient when all you want to do  
is get a bunch of files in the mail.

In article <BsHHqr.K87@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>  
baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu writes:
> Next-Attachment: .tar.432.AFileName_foo.attach, 29367, 1/1, 40392, 0
> 
> We've figured out that the 29367 is the size of the file and that 1/1 
> probably means the first tarred file in the tar file.  Does anyone
> know what the 40392 and 0 represent in this line?  Any other information
> pertaining to NeXT Mail attachments would be appreciated.
> 
I can't remember if I figured out the final two numbers (my source is on  
floppy right now). I know there was something I couldn't figure out, but I  
think it was okay to guess. Anyway, I wasn't sure if there would be any  
interest in my program, so I never released it. It's all ready to go  
though, so if anyone wants it, let me know. I've tested it on several  
flavors of UNIX. For VMess, you're on your own, but it probably wouldn't  
be too tough to get something working for it.

--
Chris Paris
cap+@cmu.edu (NeXT mail)
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From: cap+@cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Faking NextMail attachments
Message-ID: <YeTvwhT0_ek1Q86k48@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 92 03:44:46 GMT
References: <BsHHqr.K87@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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