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From: ricki@john.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Richard Breuer)
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Subject: Re: Looking For...
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Date: 6 May 91 10:15:50 GMT
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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
[...]
>The /b switch (or omitting it) gives some flexibility.
[...]

Warning: Be sure to use /b BEFORE the filename list. Otherwise DOS will
ignore the switch (this problem costed me an hour of time some months ago).

Right:	copy /b f1+f2+f3 f4
Wrong:	copy f1+f2+f3 f4 /b

Ricki.