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From: richard@iesd.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help w/appending files
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Date: 13 Jun 89 20:42:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU's message of 12 Jun 89 15:32:56 GMT


>Is there a way to force a file with a filename that already exists to
>append itself to the end of the previous file rather than overwrite the
>old one? I am writing a DBaseIV application that creates a report and

I'm not quite sure how DBaseIV could handle this, but if your application
program supports access to DOS, one way of getting round is by writing
something like

COPY OldFile.DBF + NewFile.DBF OldFile.DBF

This simply adds your old file to the new extension and - voila !