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From: THALL@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tom Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help w/appending files
Message-ID: <544@UALTAVM.BITNET>
Date: 15 Jun 89 19:08:59 GMT
References: <8906091823.AA06940@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> <2061@iesd.dk>
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In article <2061@iesd.dk>, richard@iesd.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes:
 
>
>>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 !
 
A better way would be to use COPY /B FILE1+FILE2, etc., otherwise, if
you are copying text files, you will get an imbedded Ctrl-Z (end-of-file
marker). If the files you are copying are NOT ascii text files, then
omitting the /b could get you into some trouble ;-)
 
This, at least, is my experience with DOS 3.3. Earlier versions I think
may have behaved differently. In fact, I ran across a patch for DOS
3.3's copy command that fixed some bug or other..
 
Tom
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