From: Emiliano Vavassori <syntaxerrormmm@...>
Date: 2010-06-05T10:33:30+09:00
Subject: pack('m') and Windows files

Hi all,

first post here, hope to ask things the right way :)

I'm using Ruby from RubyInstaller, 1.9.1-p243. I'm trying to send a .txt
file (which notepad++ says it's Dos/Windows with ANSI encoding) via
email using something like:
content = File.read(filename)
enccont = [content].pack('m')

Then inserting enccont inside a heredoc containing the whole mail to
send, like:
message =<<EOMESS
...
#{enccont}
...
EOMESS

The results are that I receive a mail that lacks of the 'end of lines',
in which place there are little squares (one per each line, to be fair).
Also, filetype is Unix (and not Dos/Windows).

I tried previously to substitute \n with \r\n:
content = File.read(filename).gsub(/\n/, '\r\n')

but the results are worse than before (\r\n appears also in the
attachment).

I would like to obtain the same file also via email. Is that possible?
Is there someone which has some ideas on how to achieve that?

Thanks, regards,
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