WCGate autoresponses: fil
5 Nov 1994

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From: gaven.cohen@cool.alt.za (Gaven Cohen)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.wildcat
Subject: WCGate autoresponses: fil
Date: Sat,  5 Nov 1994 06:57:00 GMT
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Organization: Cool BBS, South Africa <sysop@cool.iaccess.za>
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RW>Is there a way to have a message with a file attached be sent as a WCGate
RW>autoresponse?  My application is as follows: I have news that gets updated
RW>every day on my BBS.  I'd like to have the option for internet users to send
RW>a msg (e.g."to" news@bbs.com) which, when received here, WCGate would send a
RW>autoresponse message back with a file attached; the msg would state somethin
RW>to the effect that "the attached file contains the news you requested" and
RW>the attached zip file would contain the news (which would get updated in a
RW>batch process as a nightly event)
RW>I realize if the news is less than 64k, it could be sent as a long
RW>text message; however I'd like to send zip files to minimze ld and internet
RW>provider traffic premiums.

UUencode it manually...  (with UUENCODE.EXE - from the archive (last
name I checked) UUEXE525.ZIP).  If your news is updated automatically,
then you could make a batch file like:

CD \WILDCAT\GATEWAY\RESPONSE
UUENCODE NEWNEWS.TXT NEWNEWS.UUE
ECHO The attached file contains the news you requested.  > NEWS.TXT
ECHO . >> NEWS.TXT
COPY NEWS.TXT+NEWNEWS.UUE NEWS.TXT
DEL NEWNEWS.*

or something like that...  note the two >>'s on the second echo - one >
will overwrite the file, while two >s will append to the file.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Gaven
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