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From: straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Appending files
Message-ID: <13895@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 90 04:02:35 GMT
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In article <40@ithink.stanford.edu> meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) writes:
|In article <16176@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> abdenour@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI) writes:
|>
|>I have aprox. 100 MS Word doc files which range from 1-50 pages long.
|>I want to merge them all into one large file. Is there a quick way to
|>do it in Word 4.0 besides having to open each file in a window and cut and
|>paste manually. Or are there programs that do that? what about also just
|>straigth text files?
|
|You probably have to open all the files. Here is one way to do it
|without cutting & pasting:

What about doing a mass upload to UNIX(R) (provided that they are plain, text
files (probably not, though)), catting them together, and then downloading
them back to the Mac.  I imagine that there is some possibility of screening
through the non-ASCII if the files are binary, but I suspect that the
likelihood of success is low, especially if the files are fast-saved native
Word format.
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Richard Straka                  AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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