I have to translate a microfocus COBOL--generated ascii report file into pdf and attach it in an e-mail kicked off from within the following cgi script:
if [ "$EMAIL" = "Y" ]; then
sed -e '/^H_/s///g' <$REPFILE >$REPFILE2

print "

Emailing to $EMAILID

"
(
echo "To: $EMAILID"
echo "Subject: OK - Drawing $DRWID Issue $DRWISS Certified White Report
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=\"------------F31625F689894DCE7A7A828F\"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------F31625F689894DCE7A7A828F
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"

echo "
White Report from Certified Data included within:
Drawing ID = $DRWID
Issue = $DRWISS
ChgAnal = $CHG"
if [ "$CHG" = "Y" ]; then
echo "ChgAnalIss = $CHGISS"
fi
echo "Manuf Doc = $MFG"
echo "--------------F31625F689894DCE7A7A828F
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
"
cat $REPFILE2
echo "--------------F31625F689894DCE7A7A828F--"
) | mailx -t
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I can use postprint to go from ascii--->ps, and then I can use Acrobat's distill to convert the ps--->pdf, but how do I then attach the resulting pdf in an e-mail?
I've read all the threads here and I don't see an answer.
Please help. What am I missing? There is no option to mailx to attach, and the RFC822 was no help. We have to use mailx.
Thank you.