[Info-vax] OpenVMS 7.1 mail - attach file

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <o7cs2PdB3eh1 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 

>    VMS mail doesn't know what an atachment is.  Using it, and similar
>    systems, we would UUENCODE the file, mail it, and UUDECODE it on the
>    other end.
> 
>    You should be able to find UUENCODE and UUDECODE on the 'net for VMS
>    and most other platforms.

In my experience, more often than not the other (non-VMS) end just 
recognizes it as an attachment and treats it just like a MIME 
attachment.