mee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kevin Kahl) (03/29/90)
>>In article <2143@darkstar.ucsc.edu> mee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kevin Kahl) writes: It seems that 4DOS version 3.0 has a new bug. I wrote a device driver that is in two parts. These are the commands that I used (in a batch file under 4DOS v2.2) to concatenate the two files into one: copy /b password.bin+password.txt password.sys The resulting file does not include everything! >>In article <1990Mar28.043357.3163@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) writes: I played with this some, and found that: copy /b src1+src2 target only src2 treated binary - as above copy /b src1+src2 target /b both files treated as binary copy src1+src2 target /b both files treated as ascii copy src1 src2 target appends as if +, src2 treated as binary [=stuff deleted=] Richard Brittain, School of Elect. Eng., Upson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 This article summarizes the problem and solution. Hopefully a better specification and/or program modification will come from JP Software. Despite this bug, 4DOS is a wonderful product! I'm sure we can all agree on that. Thank you to John Kim and Richard Brittain for their research and solution to the problem! Kevin Kahl mee@ucscb.ucsc.edu