[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I wonder if somebody could answer two questions for me. > > How can I attach a directory (preferably compressed) and, recursively, its > contents to a message?
tar+gzip/zip it up into a file and attach the file to the message as described in "man mhbuild" or do something like: #application/x-gzip |tar -zcf - directory To tar it up on the fly (instead of creating the tar file yourself and attaching that). Replace the command with whatever command you want to use to archive a directory. > How could I have answered this question for myself? Neither "man mhbuild" nor > 'cat /etc/nmh/mhn.defaults' helped. "man mhbuild" tells you how to attach a file, and how to attach the output of a program to a message. It isn't going to tell you how to archive and compress a directory since that isn't the domain of a mail client, that's the domain of an archive and/or a compression program. Just like it tells you how to attach an audio file, but doesn't tell you how to create an audio file of the song you just wrote. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
