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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

