Subject: Re: Untitled

From: Xu Fan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:56:37 -0600 (CST)

Dear sir:
     I want to ask a question: How to send a math file by e-mail?
     Your help will be important to me and be appreciated.
     Best Regards,
      Yours sincerely,
       Xu Fan

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From: Bruce Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 08:33:29 +0000 (GMT)

>      Your help will be important to me and be appreciated.

	I'm not sure what you mean by a "math file".  However, if you 
mean that it is something other than simple text, I would suggest using 
uuencode.  If you had a file called "math" in your unix homedirectory, 
you could proceed as follows:

1. At the unix prompt, type:  uuencode math math > math.uu

This will yield a new file called math.uu, which is a uuencoded version 
of your original file.  The second "math" in the command line just 
indicates that when math.uu is uudecoded by the recipient, the decoded 
file will be called "math".  The "> math.uu" is needed to direct the 
output to the file math.uu.  Without this, the output will just scroll by 
on the screen.

2.  A uuencoded file is ascii text, and so can be read into an e-mail 
message with CTRL-R.  Alternatively, you can send it as an attachment 
(CTRL-J).

3.  The recipient will have to either (E)xport the message or (S)ave the 
attachment to his/her unix homedirectory.  Then after quitting PINE, they 
need to type:  uudecode math.uu

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Bruce Weaver
UWB, Psychology
[email-masked]

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:18:05 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Bruce Weaver wrote:

-> On 20 Nov 1996, Xu Fan wrote:
-> 
-> > Dear sir:
-> >      I want to ask a question: How to send a math file by e-mail?
-> >      Your help will be important to me and be appreciated.
-> >      Best Regards,
-> >       Yours sincerely,
-> >        Xu Fan
-> 
-> 	I'm not sure what you mean by a "math file".  However, if you 
-> mean that it is something other than simple text, I would suggest using 
-> uuencode.  If you had a file called "math" in your unix homedirectory, 
-> you could proceed as follows:
-> 
-> 1. At the unix prompt, type:  uuencode math math > math.uu
-> 
-> This will yield a new file called math.uu, which is a uuencoded version 
-> of your original file.  The second "math" in the command line just 
-> indicates that when math.uu is uudecoded by the recipient, the decoded 
-> file will be called "math".  The "> math.uu" is needed to direct the 
-> output to the file math.uu.  Without this, the output will just scroll by 
-> on the screen.
-> 
-> 2.  A uuencoded file is ascii text, and so can be read into an e-mail 
-> message with CTRL-R.  Alternatively, you can send it as an attachment 
-> (CTRL-J).
-> 
-> 3.  The recipient will have to either (E)xport the message or (S)ave the 
-> attachment to his/her unix homedirectory.  Then after quitting PINE, they 
-> need to type:  uudecode math.uu
-> 
-> I hope this answers your question.
-> 
-> Cheers,
-> Bruce Weaver
-> UWB, Psychology
-> [email-masked]
->
If you and the recipient are using Pine or Netscape or any other MUA which
is MIME-compatible attach your file without uu-encoding as "attachment"
(see the header while creating your mail). Then the recipient's MUA
decodes the attached file to the original. 

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