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From: mee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kevin Kahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4DOS file concatenation problem -- SOLUTION
Summary: Got a solution!
Keywords: 4DOS 3.0
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Date: 28 Mar 90 15:04:44 GMT
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From jhrv@tank.uchicago.edu Tue Mar 27 16:56:16 1990:

>I experimented a bit with 4dos after reading your message on Usenet. To do
>file concatenation where at least one of the source files contains an EOF, do:
> 	
>	copy /b password.bin+password.txt password.sys /b
>
>		or
>
>	copy /b password.bin password.txt password.sys /b
>			(no `+' is required)
>
>i.e., you have to tell 4dos that both the source files and target file have
>the /b switch.
>
>John Kim(jhrv@tank.uchicago.edu)

Great!  I tried this and it works.  According to the manual, I should have
been able to just use "copy /b p.bin+p.txt p.sys".  This is apparently a
bug in the new version of 4DOS, but not one that cannot be worked around.

Thanks to John and the others that responded in the comp.sys.ibm.pc group for
timely and helpful responses.  I hope this helps other people, too!

Cheers!  :-)

Kevin Kahl
mee@ucscb.ucsc.edu