Filepro and Email Generation

[Walter Vaughan]

Linda Hapner wrote:
<snip HTML mail which 99% of the people who would help won't>
> Can anyone tell me how an automatic email and attachment can be 
> coordinated to run smoothly within filepro?

I have over 600 messages on this topic in my archives. There is as many 
ways to do it (a few even correct) as "Carter has Liver Pills".

Below is a message that had two methods. I snipped the first and
I'd suggest you take the second approach since Brian makes it somewhat 
foolproof, and probably is willing to help


  ----- Original Message -----
From: "List Traffic" <lists at harris-home.com>
To: <sncorgan at netscape.net>; <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "Filepro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Filepro to Email

<snip complicated method>

http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/index.html#reptmail

requires:
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/index.html#unpcl
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/index.html#ibm2ascii

I think I included enough documentation in the web page and in the script
itself so I won't go into it here.

end result:
you take _already existing_ plain text or hplaser output formats, print
them to a unique-named file, and then system "reptmail H file user at host"

more options are there but not necessary. subject, from, reply-to,
cc-list, priority, return-receipt, (client made me add that but I
personally think they are offensive)

the mail is sent as html with little more than the <pre> tag, which makes
the lines, boxes, and columns look right.

lines & boxes are converted to lower-ascii equivalents (+-|) though.

sample output is shown on the web page.

it's easy (now that it's written)  :)

been using it for almost two years now, including on a pretty high-volume
site and works on sco, linux, freebsd (so far)

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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