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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Looking For...
Message-ID: <1991May4.152724.26011@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 15:27:24 GMT
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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>In article <uqRc21w164w@draco.bison.mb.ca> drose@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose) writes:
>>      I am looking for a DOS utility like unix's 'CAT'. Basicly I want to
>>piece together several files into one large one.

>The ordinary MsDos copy can be used to do that.  The manual gives
>the details. 

The DOS "COPY" command is a bad thing, as the following scenario shows:

	Sps FILE1 is big (several megs)

	Then when you do:
		COPY FILE1+FILE2
	it spends a lot of time recopying FILE1.  Why?  Good question.

Also, DOS COPY does funny stuff with ^Zs that should be avoided.
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