Maintainig Coulumn width from unix mail to windows mail

[blessing k sagonda_1]

Hi guys

I don`t no if this is possible but when i send an e-mail from my unix scripts and send to my Outlook express client on Windows the columns spaces are distorted, how can i fix this.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Try with command ux2dos,you can see man ux2dos.

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,
this is due to the font you are using in Windows, most fonts do not have evenly spaced characters : for example "W" is wider than "I". One of the fonts you can use to fix this is Courier.

good luck,
Thierry.

[blessing k sagonda_1]

the file from the script is in ascii already , i tride ux2dos no change..

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

You have ^M in the file ?

[Stephen Tatrai]

When I had this problem I found it easier to sent the text from the unix scripts as an attachment. There are other posting here that describe the commands. In summary you create a file that you mail that calls your text file as an attachement. Be sure to place this attachment command in the file you are mailing after a blank line.

[include script.txt text/plain base64]