[Info-vax] OpenVMS 7.1 mail - attach file

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <1c79cadb-632d-4929-aa9a-a890d65e8c7a at googlegroups.com>,
fredthebare at gmail.com writes: 

> Trying to use a VAX running OpenVMS v7.1
> 
> UCX reports:
> 
>  DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS VAX Version V4.2
>   on a VAX 4000-106A running OpenVMS V7.1 
> 
> The system is static, can't be upgraded or altered - long story.
> 
> Trying to mail myself a zip file, or any file for that matter, and mail 
> inc ludes the content as inline text, not as an attached file.  Mail help 
> doesn't have much for a version this old, are there any special spells 
> that will cause a file to be sent as an attachment?

With this software, probably not.  However, you could use UUENCODE and 
UUDECODE.  If you just send a UUENCODED file with VMS MAIL, with or 
without additional text, many mail clients will recognize it as an 
attachment.