truc(1)
NAME
truc - transfer big files through e-mail
SYNOPSIS
truc [-h] [-t val] [-l val] [[-p ext]...] [-report] [-r email] [-m] [-n] [-v] [-d] [-q] [-z] [-bz] [-bz2] [-x] email[,...] <file|dir>
DESCRIPTION
- truc & untruc are two shell scripts that allow you to
- transfer big files through e-mail. They are using classical com
- mands such as uuencode, tar, compress, csplit, etc. The word
- 'truc' (French) means: "Transfert Rapide Uuencode' Compresse'".
- This document applies to truc 1.0.7
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- Both truc and untruc support some command line options.
- For detailed description on untruc, view untruc(1).
- Options to `truc'
- -h Display the help
- -t val Sleep val seconds between each packet sent (de
- fault=30)
- -l val val is the maximum number of lines for a packet
- (default 1500 lines, this is about 90 Kb per packet)
- -k val val is the maximum size of a packet in Kb (default
- 90 Kb)
- -p val Will mail only the specified packet (1, 2, 3,
- etc.) you can have more than one -p option in the command line.
- Warning: This option is not working when sending directories.
- -report Will mail a report (default=no report mailed)
- -r e-mail
- Will mail a receipt to e-mail upon 'untruc' com
- pletion.
- -m Will prompt the user for a mail to be sent with
- the packages
- -n Seems to do all the job BUT doesn't send anything
- -v Turn on verbose mode
- -d Turn on debug mode
- -q Send will be totally quiet (no message displayed)
- -z Force the use of compress instead of gzip
- -bz Force the use of bzip as compressor
- -bz2 Force the use of bzip2 as compressor
- -x Upon reception, contents will be extracted as far
- as possible.
- e-mail E-mail address were you want to mail your file or
- directory. You can provide more than one address if you separate
- them by a comma
- file|dir
- Name of the file or directory you want to send
AUTHOR
- Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org> (this manual page
- for Debian GNU/Linux - original text from David Segonds)
- Version 1.0.7 16-Nov-1998