The Thursday 2004-02-26 at 15:47 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-a file Attach the given file to the message.
All right, I found out why it doesn't work. mailx in SuSE 8.0 doesn't have the -a option. 9 does...
The command "mail" is now a symlink to "nail". Original "mail" wasn't, and did not have that capacity. SuSE 8.1 had the original mail, and 8.2 has nail instead... Come to think of it, I wonder if this change came after I asked the same question here, how to send attaches from a command line, and a poster told me to use nail instead (which I had to compile from sources) then: |Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:32:06 -0400 |From: Charles Philip Chan |To: suse-linux-e@suse.com |Subject: Re: [SLE] command line mail |X-Message-Number-for-archive: 145199 I'm guessing that somebody at SuSE took the idea on :-) Ouch! And this reminds me! I still have nail in "/usr/local/bin/". I forgot to remove it (my local compiled copy from suse 8.1). Done. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson