Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: File concatenation using Microsoft
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.213445.5252@druid.uucp>
Date: 12 Jun 90 21:34:45 GMT
References: <4891@druco.ATT.COM> <46500106@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <46500106@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>If you don't mind machine dependent code, what do you think of the following:
> [How to concatenate 2 files by fiddling with the FAT]

Be careful as this only works with files that are exact multiples of your
cluster size.  Otherwise you will wind up with garbage between the two parts
of the file.

Of course it will never work across a network.

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