Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!tcnet!nis!sialis!orbit!pnet51!joe From: joe@pnet51.cts.com (Jim Henderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Combining files (was Re: Unix-like cat for MS-DOS) Message-ID: <855@orbit.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 04:05:05 GMT Sender: root@orbit.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 12 When using the copy command, it usually is reccommended that you use the /b switch when dealing with binary files. Thus the format would be: COPY /b file1 + file2 + file3 file4 What this does is treat end-of-file characters as a normal character. If you are doing ASCII text, then use the /a switch, as this strips the EOF character. Jim Henderson, joe@pnet51.cts.com "Don't ask me how it works or I'll start to whimper." - Arthur Dent DISCLAIMER: "I speak for myself, and only for myself." (Except where noted.)