email

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com
>
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com]
On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:35 PM
> To: ROBERT PULLIAM
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: email
> 
> ROBERT PULLIAM wrote:
> > Using sco unix.  Filepro.
> > Is there a way to send email?   My business statements are
> > getting to be so many and postal rates keep going up that I would like
to send
> statements by email.  A field in the filepro database contains the email
address.
> 
> The never-released v2n2 edition of Laura's filePro Developer's Journal had
> an article by me, "Customized, Word-wrapped E-mail from filePro".  The
> complete (well, technically, "incomplete", as it was never finished)
edition
> is available from her old website here:
> 
>      http://www.hvcomputer.com/old/fpdj/v2n2
> 
> The article starts on page 21.  It uses nroff to format, and sendmail to
> send the e-mail.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

Ken,

With fp 5.6 and wordwrap option, could not one use this to have nicely
formatted test for emailing?

With a little bit of work, one can use proportional fonts in the output and
have  it wrap properly.



Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net