Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!2014_5001
From: 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <3808.25127922@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 16 Sep 89 20:47:30 GMT
References: <4734@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2553@pur-phy>
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In article <2553@pur-phy>, qz@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Qin Zhao) writes:
>   Hi, I recently got some problem when I tried to concatenate two files.
> 
> What I have done is following:
> 
>   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.

It likely hold that there is an EOF char at the end of file1.

The simple solution is:

copy file1+file2 file3

Then, ren file1 *.bk!
      ren file3 file1


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Alexander Pruss, at one of: Department of Applied Mathematics, Astronomy,
Mathematics, or Physics                     University of Western Ontario 
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