Auto sending a file as an attachment to an email

I show you tips:

1. you can use redirect method.
    print "Location: somefile\n\n";
2. you need use encode the file and make a mail file like:
 
--bbtieappiqmaklud
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="5-67news.zip"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="youfile.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

UEsDBBQAAAAIAC2Ipyg4O0zCcqUAAMIgAQAMAAAAMjAwMDA1MDYudHh0rf3rc9v4
mSeKv1eV/gfXqdqqpGrS093pTjJ5dTKZmT1zzs4klWR3z7tTvZnemdSZTaaSzJmd
899QtGWJkmVeABAgCN4AEiBAECAAghItWzdLbluybEm27nT9ng8ewZQ7mdn9nUmn
0k2RwPfyfJ/77XvHzxT79epoXRx/97ufdcbf+PTjjz/+6OPPP/r4O98cLejtwoLY
--bbtieappiqmaklud--

how to encode base64:
follow is perl sub for encode base 64
sub encode_base64 ($;$) {
    my $res = "";
    my $eol = $_[1];
    $eol = "\n" unless defined $eol;
    pos($_[0]) = 0;                          # ensure start at the beginning
    while ($_[0] =~ /(.{1,45})/gs) {
        $res .= substr(pack('u', $1), 1);
        chop($res);
    }
    $res =~ tr|` -_|AA-Za-z0-9+/|;               # `# help emacs
    # fix padding at the end
    my $padding = (3 - length($_[0]) % 3) % 3;
    $res =~ s/.{$padding}$/'=' x $padding/e if $padding;
    # break encoded string into lines of no more than 76 characters each
    if (length $eol) {
        $res =~ s/(.{1,76})/$1$eol/g;
    }
    $res;
}

if you still have problem,please say.

hualian,

you are using base64 encoding to send the file across.

but you need to realize that the end user/recipient must know how to use their email client to decode, using base 64, & then extract the file.

i know a vast majority of users (technical & non-technical) find it very difficult to do that!!.

i hope you have taken that into consideration in your solution.

Sorry, guess I'm a little confused, or I wasn't clear enough.  What I'm looking to do is have a link on the web page that a person can click to email themselves a file.  This is done in two stages.  First the user clicks the appropriate file, and then gets a second page asking where he wants it sent to.

To see this in action, go to:http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LMV102.html#Datasheet and try clicking the "Recieve via email." You'll see what I mean.

I guess I'm hoping for a simple "prepackaged" cgi I can use to acheive this, as I've got little to no skills in that area.

Thanks for all your help.

mcneil