On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 01:15 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing
> > for (FC3), the mail command does not have a "-a" option.
> >
> > I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else
> > has any more suggestions?
> 
> Unless you're prepared to use raw sendmail and generate all the headers
> yourself, you might be better off using perl and a module specifically
> designed to encode mail attachments correctly.

Sigh.. Yeah.. I can do this. It just involves using the -t to sendmail.

> 
> Speaking as a programmer, perl is a lot easier to deal with than bash for
> textual operations such as this.

Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't
really progressed anywhere hehe).

But.. when push comes to shove....
> 
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> 

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