Re: Concatenate text

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Miklos Gyorgy writes ...
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for an application for Mac which would do the simple task
> of concatenating two megabyte-long text files. A word processor would
> probably do but at the moment I only possess a very simple text editor
> which cannot handle long files.
> 

     A Mac user might know of some utility which will do the job; I do 
not. Assuming there is no problem with file length, one approach might be 
to write a program which reads FileA.1MB and writes to FileC.Big. When an 
error is encountered (e.g. via a BASIC ONERR), you hop to another loop 
and read FileB.1MB and continue writing to FileC.Big. When an error is 
encountered, you CLOSE all files.

     FileC.Big should be about 2MB.


Rubywand