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From: fredb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Fred Buechler)
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Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
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Date: 15 Sep 89 20:10:06 GMT
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In article <2553@pur-phy> qz@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Qin Zhao) writes:
>
>  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.

The problem is that the end of file mark (^Z) is still at the end of the
first file (as well as a second one at the end of the whole file). The way
to concatenate files is to use the DOS copy command. There is a special
syntax that will concatenate the two files. I don't have the manual handy to
look up the specifics now.  Good Luck!

-- fredb