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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <texel@icrt.cu>
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Subject: Re: Mailing binary files
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On 2003-10-14 23:52, "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <texel@icrt.cu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to mail some users binary files (.tar.gz) from cron jobs. What's
> the best way to do that? Maybe uuencoding them? (bonus points if no
> ports involved ;)

Uuencoding works fine.  Try running this:

	$ uuencode filename filename | mail -s 'filename.uue' user@host

- Giorgos