mailx

[Dave La Mar]

Sorry people. I know there are a lot of posts on this and I have read many, but obviously not the correct one.
Problem:
uuencode /path/file.name newfile.txt | mailx
-m -s "Subject" xxxx@xxxx.com

file.name has many lines of text.
newfile.txt when received as an attachment contains all the lines of test in one line.
There seems to be no translation of cr lf.
mailx.rc contains - set charset=X-roman8
set charset=us-ascii
What am I missing?
I can use elm but wish to solve this first.
Thanks for any input.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Dave

Try

mailx -s "SUBJECT" abc@xyz.com < < file name>

Manoj Srivastava

[Dave La Mar]

Thanks for the suggestion Manoj Srivastava,
but that will put the text in the body of the email and not as an attachment.
dl

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Dave


add the following to the .profile of the user and you will get the attachement

export NLS_LANG="spanish"_spain.we8dec
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII
export LANG=es_ES.iso88591

I have also added the .profile of the user from where I get the atachements .

Manoj Srivastava

[Dave La Mar]

Thanks for the input. I will add the language parms as needed.
As it turns out the problem was in opening the document in word pad.
Translation of cr and lf seem to be fine when using MS Word or ultra edit.
Rookie error.

[Dave La Mar]

The culprit was note pad not word pad as stated.
dl

[Laurent Paumier · Accepted solution]

uuencode was designed to encode binary files. It will not convert line feeds. You should convert the file before encoding it :

# ux2dos /path/file | uuencode newfile.txt | mailx -m -s "Subject" xxxx@xxxx.com

[Dave La Mar]

Thanks you Laurent Paumier. Actually though it works as I currently use it, your suggestion seems to be the appropriate way. I noticed this allowed even notepad to open the document successfully.
Thnaks again.

[Bill Hassell]

Notepad is a simple ASCII text editor while WordPad and Word, et al are word processors. A plain ASCII file in DOS or Windows requires CR/LF pairs to conform. Word processors such as Wordpad see the lone LF character as a soft carriage return, which is meaningful in formatting paragraphs. Notepad just shows the single LF as a black square.

You can select all the text in Wordpad or Word with CTRL-A and then copy the data to the Clipboard. Start Notepad and paste the Clipboard contents and all will be fixed.

As this is a bit too complex for most users, just use ux2dos in your mailx command line to conver the file to a standard ACII file foe PCs.