Radio Shack TRS-80 Owner's Manual page 42

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TRS-80
MODEL
(II
DISK
SYSTEM
TRSDOS
Library
Commands
APPEND
Append
files
append
source-file destination-file
source-file
is
the specification
for
the
file
which
is to
be
copied onto the end
of the
other
file
destination-file
is
the specification
for the
fiie
which
is
to
receive the
appendage
(addition).
Note: Both source-
and
destination-files
must
be
in
ascii
format
(data
files
or basic
programs saved
with the a
option).
append
copies the contents of
the source-file onto
the
end
of the
destination-file.
The
source-file
is
unaffected, while
the destination-file
is
extended
to
include the
source-file.
Note:
The
logical
record lengths must match. See dir
for
more
information
on
logical record lengths.
Examples
APPEND WORDFILE/C WORDFILE/D
A
copy of
wordfile/c
is
appended
to
wordfile/d.
APPEND REGI0N1/DAT TOTAL/DAT, GUESS
A
copy of
region
i/D
at
is
appended
to
total/dat, which
is
protected with
the
password guess.
Sample
Uses
Suppose you have two
data
files,
payroll/a and payroll/b.
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