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Kent Covert <[log in to unmask]>
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Miami University OpenVMS <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:15:54 -0500
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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
 [log in to unmask] (Micah James Cooper) writes:
> Chris Carman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>> This just results in a filename like 4-NOV-199615-04-56.41, which is as close
>> to unique as I can get.  Anyway, it didn't work out; I'm having prolems
>> getting a script to send a mail message right now.
>
> Say, is there a command equiv to
> mail << "text"?
 
Not exactly.  At the $ prompt, you could do something like the following,
though:
 
    $ PIPE TYPE filename.ext | MAIL SYS$INPUT "[log in to unmask]"
 
Or, a more efficient approach would be:
 
    $ MAIL filename.ext "[log in to unmask]"
 
--
                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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