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From: baird@cod.NOSC.MIL (John M. Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <1638@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 15 Sep 89 15:07:16 GMT
References: <2553@pur-phy>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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From article <2553@pur-phy>, by qz@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Qin Zhao):
> 
>   Hi, I recently got some problem when I tried to concatenate two files.
>   I gave command:
> 
> 		 type file2 >> file1
> 
If instead you had tried
    COPY /A file1+file2 newfile
you would have had better luck. file2 did get added to file 1, AFTER one
or more existing Ctrl-Zs. COPY /A will not put Ctrl-Zs in the output file,
so you should be OK.

When you used TYPE to look at the resulting file, it stopped at the first
Ctrl-Z. Try using COPY file1 CON /B instead, and the entire file (with the
embedded Ctrl-Zs) will be displayed on the console. 

John Baird, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA