How can I send a file through MAIL?

[Claus Engdahl]

gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <1990Nov27.140554.5318 at ssd.kodak.com> weimer at ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer) writes:
>-In article <14578 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>->In article <hobbit.659539924 at shum> hobbit at shum.UUCP (yoav gonen) writes:
>->>How can I send a file through MAIL?
>->mail whoever < file
>-This will only work for limitted sized non-binary files (i.e. small text
>-files).

>But it OUGHT to work, if your mail system is worth a damn (many aren't).

Many mailsystems resides in the Real-World (Tm), where you have to
deal with lowspeed noisy serial links. 
I think the size currently supported by the eunet backbones is 100.000
characters, but they might have increased it?

Claus Engdahl (zonker at diku.dk, postmaster at diku.dk, staff at diku.dk,,,,,)
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