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- From: lauther@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Ulrich Lauther)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Copying files to floppy disks
- Message-ID: <12939@ztivax.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 07:59:31 GMT
- References: <01GNV2FPK56A8ZE6H1@delphi.com> <9208230118.AA01558@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
- Reply-To: lauther@ztivax.siemens.com (Ulrich Lauther)
- Organization: Siemens, ZFE BT SE 14
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- In article <9208230118.AA01558@eola.cs.ucf.edu> "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet> writes:
- >In article <01GNV2FPK56A8ZE6H1@delphi.com> you write:
- >
- >This is your problem. If you use a single '>', each screen.tar.Za? overwrites
- >the previous one. You need to use *2*, like so:
- >
- >cat screen.tar.Za? >> screen.tar.Z
- >
- >This _appends_ rather than overwrites the screen.tar.Z file.
-
- Not in real UNIX. "cat" stands for con'cat'anate, i.e. it is supposed to
- paste all the input files together and to write them as one file onto the
- output. That's also what the Coherent lexicon says.
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