Finally, a question I might be able to shed some light on. I now administer
the last VMS system at my corporation and it's due for shutdown at end of
September... RIP VMS!

VMS doesn't handle uppercase options very well. The problem is, DCL
switches everything to uppercase, and when it reaches the C RTL, the case
information is lost. The C RTL then converts it all to lowercase for argc
and argv processing ... In most cases, most Unix utilities use lowercase
options and this isn't a problem.

However, you come across cases where uppercase options are needed.

The solution I have seen with ZIP and UNZIP is to put the uppercase options
in quotes i.e. "-T". As far as I'm aware this is passed from DCL to the C
RTL, and when it comes to argc/argv processing, the case is retained.

Just one of those VMS specific peculiarties ...

Hope that helps,
Malcolm

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM, <kakuffo_at_curoonline.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Try the example on the link below
>
>
> http://community.sendgrid.com/sendgrid/topics/need_an_example_of_sending_a_file_attachment_using_command_line_version_of_curl
>
>
>
>
> Kwame Akuffo
> kakuffo_at_curoonline.com
> 07891268149
>
> On 22 Aug 2013, at 13:11, tom.reid_at_hsbcib.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18379409/sending-a-file-as-attachemnt-in-curl#> I
> have just downloaded the latest version of curl (Ver. 7.32) for openvms
> and I'm trying to use it to send an email via SMTP. So far I can send a
> text file and have its contents appear in the body of the email. However I
> want to be able to send files as attachments as we will also be sending
> xls, zips etc...
>
> Here is the command I used to get the contents of the text file in the
> body (with dummy passwords etc ... for security reasons)
>
> curl smtp://my.smtp.server -v --mail-from "dummy_at_mymail.com" --mail-rcpt "
> tom.reid_at_hsbcib.com" --ssl -u dummy_at_mymail.com:dummypass -T "test.txt"
>
> Does anyone know I can use curl to send a file as an attachement
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
>
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