Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/03/25/20:24:18
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:29:41 +0100, Giacomo Degli Esposti
> <pad2369 AT iperbole DOT bologna DOT it> wrote:
>
> >"Robert L." wrote:
> >>
> >> Excuse me, but i don't have cat command in dos ( v. 7 ). I know there's one
> >> in unix.
> >> If it exist, where can i find it, else what the "spec" of this command.
> >> ( win98 )
> >
> >You can find it in the Textutils package in DJGPP (txtXXXb.zip).
> >Anyway it is more or less equivalent to the "type" DOS command (i.e. it
> >copies files to stdout), so you can use "type" instead of "cat".
>
> One problem:
>
> C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>type /?
> Displays the contents of text files.
>
> TYPE [drive:][path]filename
>
>
> C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>
>
>
> Meaning it'll stop at the first Ctrl+Z. It would be different if
> there were a /b option to `type'. `cat' is often used to concatenate
> binary files, much as `copy /b foo.0+foo.1+foo.2 foo.out' is.
Well you can also try "copy con foo.c" which should dump the contents of
foo.c to the console.
Grendel
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