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From: qz@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Qin Zhao)
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Subject: append " >> " is not working, why?
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Date: 15 Sep 89 06:21:45 GMT
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  Hi, I recently got some problem when I tried to concatenate two files.

What I have done is following:

  There is tow file: file1 and file2 ( I got from somebody else ).

  I gave command:

		 type file2 >> file1

 in order to put file2 at the end of file1.  And then I used "dir" to check 

the size of file1, it was increased by the  size of file2.

However, when I tried to read the contents of file1, I could only see the 

original part of file1. I had used several editors, and "type" commands. 

But when I rewrote  file1 using the editor, the size of file1 drops to the 

original size of file1.

  I guess that file1 and file2 were created in old version (3.0 ) DOS, and

the end-of-file character may be not recognized by the new version ( 3.3) of

DOS. But I am not sure how this can happen, and how can I solve this problem.

I would be very much appreciated, if somebody can provide some information.