If you want to send a file to someone by e-mail -- a log file containing the source code and test runs for a program that you want to turn in -- here's an easy way to do it. Let's say that typical user George Spelvin wants to mail a file named frogs.log to stone@math.grin.edu. He brings up an hpterm window and issues the command
elm stone@math.grin.edu < frogs.log
The symbol < here is essential; it means ``take the body of
the message from the file that follows.''
Here's the way it shows up in my mail reader:
From: George Spelvin <spelvin@math.grin.edu> To: stone@post.math.grin.edu Subject: no subject (file transmission) Date: Mon, 31 Feb 1997 13:05:30 CST Script started on Mon Feb 31 12:28:13 1997 post% cat frogs.ss ;;; frogs.ss -- an amphibian tallier ;;; George Spelvin ;;; February 31, 1997
(And so on.)
If you want, you can even have elm fill in the ``Subject''
line of the header for you, by adding the option -s
followed by the desired subject header (enclosed in double quotes).
elm -s "Amphibian tallier" stone@math.grin.edu < frogs.log
Now the header will look like this in my mail reader:
From: George Spelvin <spelvin@math.grin.edu> To: stone@post.math.grin.edu Subject: Amphibian tallier Date: Mon, 31 Feb 1997 13:08:41 CST
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created February 20, 1997
last revised August 25, 1997