Re: mailing a stream as a file

2000-11-06 Thread David Champion
On 2000.11.04, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Eric Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This "works" zip - *txt|mutt -s'send a zip file of all txt docs' eric -a - Odd; it doesn't work for me. The syntax you give fails to send to the users "-a" or "-". Putting "eric" after all options (as I

Re: mailing a stream as a file

2000-11-05 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi all! On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Eric Smith wrote: This "works" zip - *txt|mutt -s'send a zip file of all txt docs' eric -a - on 'V' in mutt received mail gives: - I 1 no description [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 96K] A 2 -

mailing a stream as a file

2000-11-04 Thread Eric Smith
Hi This "works" zip - *txt|mutt -s'send a zip file of all txt docs' eric -a - on 'V' in mutt received mail gives: - I 1 no description [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, 96K] A 2 - [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0K] With the top one being

Re: mailing a stream as a file

2000-11-04 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 04 Nov 2000: This "works" zip - *txt|mutt -s'send a zip file of all txt docs' eric -a - I would recommend saving the stream into a file first, and then attaching it to the mail with -a. The body of the message can be done with redirect from

mailing output stream as a file [borderline off topic]

1999-04-16 Thread Eric Smith
Hi Forgive me if I should address this elsewhere, but the quality of this list is so high, its just too difficult to resist - ok, I'll stop. I want to send the output of a unix process (i.e. a text stream) by mail as an attached text file _non_ interactively. I loathe making tmp files and then

Re: mailing output stream as a file [borderline off topic]

1999-04-16 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:36:55AM +0200, Eric Smith wrote: I want to send the output of a unix process (i.e. a text stream) by mail as an attached text file _non_ interactively. I loathe making tmp files and then deleting them and would like to keep this all in memory using variables. Is

Re: mailing output stream as a file [borderline off topic]

1999-04-16 Thread David DeSimone
David Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way, though it's a bit odd. The trick is to make a FIFO (a la "named pipe"). That works, but it doesn't meet the stated requirements, because you'd have to remember to delete the file that was created. He said he was trying not to have to do

Re: mailing output stream as a file [borderline off topic]

1999-04-16 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:54:34PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote: David Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a way, though it's a bit odd. The trick is to make a FIFO (a la "named pipe"). That works, but it doesn't meet the stated requirements, because you'd have to remember to delete