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From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Unix-like cat for MS-DOS
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Date: 9 Aug 89 15:04:56 GMT
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MS-DOS 'copy' does not like wildcards; I can not concatenate temp1
and temp2 into temp3 by entering "copy temp? temp3" (assuming that
temp1 and temp2 exist and temp3 doesn't.  The UNIX cat command will
do what I want (cat temp? > temp3).  I looked for an MS-DOS implemen-
tation and tried the one in picnix31, but it includes the EOF
character and I am unable to concatenate text files and then look
at them without tripping over the embedded control-Z.  There doesn't
seem to be a switch that would concatenate text files and dump the
extra control-Zs (retaining the one at the end of the last file, of
course).

Could anyone point me toward an MS-DOS version of cat (or anything 
similar) that will allow me to concatenate text files USING WILDCARDS
without running into my embedded control-Z problem.  I have ftp ac-
cess; if it's available at an archive site, please let me know what
the program is called, where it is, and how to get there by ftp.
Please reply by email to:
  djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet]
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Thanks.

--David