From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Sending email from C++ program in gcc/gpp
Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:19:42 +0100
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Hello.

Alex Vinokur wrote:
> Is it possible to send email from C/C++ program in gcc/gpp ?
> For instance, using system() ?

Yes. Use google to search for a program called Blat. As an example: You can
set up the DJGPP port of Emacs to use Blat to send e-mail and it works nicely.
Eli Zaretskii has some Emacs scripts to do this, which I've been using for a
while.

The problem with using external programs is that you need to have a version of
the program per platform, i.e.: one for DOS, one for Windows. If you don't
care about DOS, then things get easier. 8)

In pakke, a package manager for DJGPP, we use GNU wget to download packages
automatically from the Internet. That seems to work quite well.

HTH, regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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