Mail 132 column documents

[adept]

Hi all

We run a character system and often need to send 132 column documents via email to other users.

When I use the command

uuencode fname fname.html |mail email-address

then the resulting email is unformatted. On viewing the source, one can see the document in its original format.

How do I send this document preserving its original format???

 

[Book]

My first guess is that your problem is font translation. The character-based fonts are not kerned. The normal font in your email client probably is kerned. The recipient should open the mail, select all, and change to a non-kerned font like courier or system. If anyone knows how to encode the font selection in the output, I'm interested.