How to combine two files

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Brian S

I'd like to know how to conjoin two files, making
one big file. The two source files are already
very big -- 1 GB each. So, it is not practical to
open two files and to copy and paste the content
of the latter file into the end of the first file.

The best method I would like to use is to alter
the bookkeeping area of the disk in order to
logically combine the two files. Are there any
utilities that use this method to combine two
files?

Another method, in which I am less interested, is
to append the latter file at the end of the first
file while making a copy of them. For example,
the DOS command

copy file1+file2 fileOut

would do this. However, when I tried this DOS
command on files as big as 1 GB, it failed. I
guess 1 GB is too big for DOS.

Many thanks in advance.
 
Go here, http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ , and download the GNU Utilities
for Win32, unzip them, open a cmd window and navigate to the \usr\local\wbin
directory and type " cat path\to\file1 path\to\file2 >>
path\to\newfilename". Not sure if it will work for 1GB files, but it works
for 15 MB files.
Louis
 
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