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Subject: Re: Where is cat?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:09:28 GMT
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Joseph Rose wrote:

>copy /a file1 + file2 output

Yes, but you can't pipe the output.

Also, try

    copy /a file1 + file2 con

where file1 and file2 have Unix-style newlines (no carriage returns).

These problems can be worked around, but cat is simpler, and shell
scripts will usually expect it to be available.

S.