Problems with forwarding PostScript files
Jeff Michaud
michaud at decvax.dec.com
Fri Feb 2 05:27:15 AEST 1990
> Sometimes perfectly good .PS documents are ruined by sending them by
> email.
>
> The problem became immediately apparent - the ULTRIX (and presumably
all UNIX)
> forwarding mechanism adds a "dash space" to any dashes it finds in the first
> column.
How about simply pipe'ing the .ps file through a simple sed
script to add a space before every line that begins with
a dash. Then mh would leave it alone.
sed -e '/^-/s/^-/ /' file.ps | mail -s subject rcpt .....
/--------------------------------------------------------------\
|Jeff Michaud michaud at decwrl.dec.com michaud at decvax.dec.com|
|DECnet-ULTRIX #include <standard/disclaimer.h> |
\--------------------------------------------------------------/
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