Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All
I want a method in shell script which will embed the exe file into rtf file si that the rtf file can be open in word and so my exe.

Actually what is happening in my system at present :
The report in my system is a self-extracting Zip file with filetype '.EXE'. Double clicking on the attachment opens and decrypts the report.
But in some customers the attachement with '.exe' is being rejected due to virus protection mechanisms.

Now i am trying to write a mechanism in unix which will embed this exe file in some '.TXT' file so that it will not be rejected and can pass tru

Thanks in advance
Rawat

I would say that this is very valid security measure which you will find very hard to circumvent. If customers require such an executable file, your best approach is to zip the file and then e-mail/embed that - then they will have to explicity open the .zip file in order to open it.

This is more a windows issue than it is a Unix one.

Cheers
ZB