[Info-vax] OpenVMS 7.1 mail - attach file

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-07-09 kl. 09:06, skrev fredthebare at gmail.com:
> 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
> includes 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?
> 


The absolute easiest is to run TCPIP$UUENCODE (or whatever it as called
in that old TCPIP/UCX version) on the ZIP file and then just mail the
plain UUE text file.

$ mc tcpip$uuencode file.zip file.uue
$ mail/subj=file file.uue "smtp%""<mail-address>"""