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From: wcr@branch.FIDONET.ORG (W.c. Rothanburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <1267.25133320@branch.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 17 Sep 89 03:27:36 GMT
Organization: The Branch Office, Pompano Beach, Florida.  (305) 979-2073
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In an article of <15 Sep 89 06:21:45 GMT>, 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:
 >
 >  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.
 >'

Actually, It did work.  DOS normally marks the end of a text (ascii) file with  
a Ctrl-z.  Dos's append '>>' added the output of the type command the the  
first file, after the Ctrl-z to mark the end of the file.
 
Try: copy file1+file2 file3   

This will copy the contents of file1 and file2 to file3.  I beleive this will  
correct the problem you are expirencing.  

Bill

 
 



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