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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: minor problem with COPY command
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Date: 18 Dec 90 19:52:47 GMT
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swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) writes:

>>>> Has anyone patched command.com to *stay* in binary mode *all* the time?
>----------

>Please don't.  Else how will you concatenate ASCII files that each have
>a Ctrl-Z at the end?

Use an explicit /A switch, that's how.

It boils down to which should be the default.  For most people, living
in the 90's, the default should be binary.

The real solution is not to use the DOS copy command with anything other
than plain vanilla syntax unless you give it an explicit mode switch.