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Re: *************** HELP in DOS 5.0 ******************

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From: Mike Levis
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:03
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In article <1992Aug30.013239.21315@cc.umontreal.ca> cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin) writes:
>
>Hello, I need to concatenate to text files together in DOS 5.0 , I have looked
>in many manuals but I can't seem to find the answer. It seems straight
>forward enough yet I am unable to find the answer. I need to append to text
>files into a single text file a.txt + b.txt -> c.txt
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You gave the partial answer in your question!
Here is how to do it.
C:> COPY a.txt+b.txt c.txt
I do not have DOS 5.0 (I have DOS 2.1, 4.0 and OS/2 1.3, 2.0) but
perhaps this append is documented under the COPY command?

>
>The equivalent of what I need in UNIX is:
>
>                        cat a.txt b.txt > c.txt
>
>Please someone help me, why can't I figure it out???
>
>Martin Cholette
>cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca


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From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: *************** HELP in DOS 5.0 ******************
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