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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <767@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Sep 89 21:35:12 GMT
References: <4734@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2553@pur-phy> <1675@bucket.UUCP> <6169@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <6169@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>In article <1675@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>}
>}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
>
>That's not my experience.  Qedit, Sprint, and PC-Write will merrily read any

I quite agree.  And furthermore, if ^Z nevertheless becomes a
problem, there are filters that get rid of them.  I have written a
couple myself for this purpose for the public domain. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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