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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: DOS Copy Command in NT
From:       "Andrew J. L. Cary" <ajlcary () CARYCONSULTING ! COM>
Date:       1998-06-30 20:47:11
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Hmm.
The command works fine for me, both inside and outside SAS.
Win NT Workstation 4.0 & SAS 6.11.

Have you looked at 'fileone.txt' with a hex viewer? My bet is that
whatever editor produced fileone.txt stuck the '1A'x  in there. The
copy command is a straight bit for bit copy unless one of the options
is set.
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Andrew J.L. Cary
Chief Curmudgeon
Cary Consulting Systems
http://www.caryconsulting.com

Hays McLean wrote in message <>...
>I have the following code that is used successfully in Windows NT 3.51,
>SAS ver. 6.12:
>
>DATA _NULL_ ;
>X COPY fileone.txt + filetwo.txt file3.txt;
>
>to append filetwo to fileone and produce a new file file3.
>
>However, the same code when run under Windows NT 4.0, produces a file3
>but includes a hex character '1A' or eof between the two files.  This
>effectively makes DOS regard the end of file at the end of fileone.
>
>Has anyone had this experience or problem and know how to fix it?
>
>--Hays McLean

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