Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!don From: don@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unix-like cat for MS-DOS Message-ID: <216100120@trsvax> Date: 10 Aug 89 13:23:00 GMT References: <380@wjh12.harvard.edu> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:wjh12.harvard.edu:380:trsvax:216100120:000:850 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!don Aug 10 08:23:00 1989 >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. Actually, this works fine for me. Command.com complains that the contents of the file temp3 is lost, but when I look at the file, it is the correct concatenation of the two temp files. If such an error bothers you, there is an easy solution. Create a temporary directory called tempdir. Then execute the DOS commands: copy temp? tempdir\temp3 copy tempdir\temp3 . This even takes care of the case where temp3 already exists. BTW, I'm using DOS 3.3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Subt The opinions expressed above are Tandy Corp. strictly mine, not my employer's. 817-390-3068 ...!texbell!letni!rwsys!trsvax!don