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According to Peter Milne on 5/25/2007 2:04 AM:
> Now though, presumably because A has gotten so large, when I do the above
> command the contents of file B get copied onto the front of file A rather
> than onto its end.
> 
> Is there a fix or workaround?

Use a snapshot.  This was fixed in newlib, just this month.  So 1.5.24 is
broken, but 1.7.0 will have the fix.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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