Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting mhbuild to attach a directory

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Norman,

> I wonder if somebody could answer two questions for me.
> 
>   How can I attach a directory (preferably compressed) and,
>   recursively, its contents to a message?
> 
>   How could I have answered this question for myself?  Neither "man
>   mhbuild" nor 'cat /etc/nmh/mhn.defaults' helped.

mhbuild(1) had the clues.  I'd guess at something like

    #application/octet-stream; type=tar; conversions=compress; \
        name="norm.tar.Z" | tar cf - norm | compress

Cheers,


Ralph.

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