[ILUG] semding binary files using mail

[John Diamond]

> I want to send binary files using mail program.  Bascially I want to send
CV's to a lot of people at once (non interactively).  My problem is that
while
> $ mail someone at someserver.com < CV.txt
> works fine but try sending a binary doc and all the sender gets is crap.
> There is nothing in the man or info pages about attaching files using
mail.
Try something like
 uuencode somefile.bin somefile.bin | mail -s 'thesubject'
someone at someserver.com
John