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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Transfering unix file as an email attachment Post 4424 by slivi on Friday 17th of November 2000 10:54:14 AM
Old 11-17-2000
Final resolution
Thank you both for your suggestions - they were very helpful, and eventually led me to a final solution.

Changing the original report while still in Unix was not an option - this particular report is also run by the users from a menu. My task was to get that report emailed to managers on a weekly basis, and it has to be the same report as when they run it themselves.

But I did run with your idea of changing the file type before it was transferred. I ended up using an ".wri" (Windows Write file type). Then, when the user opens their Outlook email message, they find an attached document, perfectly formatted, and they are able to use the windows scroll bars to shift view right & left to see the whole file.

Here's the resulting code line that sends the email message:
cat /u/sandyl/sm_o_commdt_archive/c | uuencode weekly_commiss.wri | mail -s ",subject,cur_address

Thanks again for your suggestions.
 

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pbmtextps

pbmtextps(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 pbmtextps(1)

NAME

       pbmtextps - render text into a bitmap via postscript

SYNOPSIS

       pbmtextps [-font fontfile] [-fontsize fontsize] [-resolution resolution] [-stroke strokesize] [-verbose [text]

DESCRIPTION

       pbmtextps takes a single line of text from the command line and renders it into a PBM image.

       The  image  is cropped at the top and the right. It is not cropped at the left or bottom so that the text begins at the same position rela-
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OPTIONS

       -font  By default, pbmtextps uses TimesRoman.  You can specify the font to use with the -font option. This is the name of any  valid  post-
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       -fontsize
              Size of font in points. See the -resolution option for information on how to interpret this size.

              Default is 24 points.

       -resolution
              Resolution in dots per inch of distance measurements pertaining to generation of the image. PBM images don't have any inherent reso-
              lution, so a distance such as "1 inch" doesn't mean anything unless you separately specify what  resolution  you're  talking  about.
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              In  particular,  the  meaning of the font size is determined by this resolution. If the font size is 24 points and the resolution is
              150 dpi, then the font size is 50 pixels.

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              Width of line to use for stroke font. There is no default stroke width because the letters are solid by default.

USAGE

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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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