Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:4113 comp.sys.ibm.pc:32906 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!husc6!wjh12!djb 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 Message-ID: <380@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 15:04:56 GMT Reply-To: djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) Followup-To: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu OR djb@harvunxw.bitnet Distribution: na Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 24 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] djb@wjh12.uucp [UUCP] djb@harvunxw.bitnet [Bitnet] Thanks. --David