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From: baird@cod.NOSC.MIL (John M. Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help w/appending files
Message-ID: <1552@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 9 Jun 89 20:02:56 GMT
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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From article <8906091823.AA06940@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>, by cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz):
> 
> Is there a way to force a file with a filename that already exists to
> append itself to the end of the previous file rather than overwrite the
> old one?
Why not just redirect the DBase printer output to a file, collecting it there
until you have everything you want, and then printing it?  You can use a
program called LPTX to do that, and it will let you append to the redirected
file later on, if you want to. A portion of the LPTX man page is appended to 
this message.

John Baird, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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LPTx - Line Printer Redirection Program - V7.00

Calling sequence : 

LPTx [?] [-m] [-x] [-l] [-i] -p -f <[d:][\pathname\pathname]filename>

    where  p = printer number : 1, 2, or 3
           f = function : o for open a print file
>NOTE>>>                  a for append to a print file             <NOTE<<<
                          c for close a print file
           drive letter & pathname are optional