ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CSO ) (04/17/91)
Maybe this is old news to many, but I just got bit by it yesterday: The '.' terminating a Perl format, newer versions of shar that "optimize" away "unnecessary" prefix characters, and something in ucbmail or SMTP conspire to truncate your mail. To foil the conspiracy, demand those damn wasteful unnecessary prefix characters with "shar -F" when creating an archive with perl scripts for mailing. ---------------------------------- Ed Kubaitis (ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu) Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana