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From: mee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kevin Kahl)
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Subject: Re: 4DOS file concatenation problem
Keywords: 4DOS 3.0
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Date: 29 Mar 90 18:49:42 GMT
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In article <5563@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>Is there an easy way to do the equivalent of
>
> cat file1 >> file2
>
> under DOS?

If your file is an ASCII file:

  type file1 >> file2

will do the trick.  If your file is a binary file:

  copy /b file2 file1 file2

ought to do it.

Kevin Kahl
mee@ucscb.ucsc.edu