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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <1675@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 06:51:54 GMT
References: <4734@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2553@pur-phy>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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Text files have a ^Z at the end as an end-of-file marker. This is a 
hangover from CP/M. Most editors assume that a ^Z is the end of the
file. Thus your problem with the editor not seeing the second file
*and* also truncating the file.

Type file2 >>file1 will *not do what you want.

the *proper command is:

copy file1+file2 file3 /a

this will copy file 1 *and* file 2 to a new file (file3).
The /a indicates that these are ascii (as opposed to binary) files.
So the ^z will get stripped of of the end of the first file.
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