Thus it was written in the epistle of Mark Halstead,
> Hi All,
> I need some help joining two files together. File A is 100 Bytes and 250
> records, file B is 25 bytes and 250 records. I need to be able to create a
> 125 byte, 250 record file from these two files. The files need to be sort of
> "joined at the hip". I've tried the Posix Paste command, but it deblanks so
> that if the last 10 bytes of file A are blank I end up with data stopping at
> 240 instead of 250 in my output file. I've been told this is possible using
> Suprtool, but I don't want to tell my client they need to buy a piece of
> software to do something that *seems* so simple.
Mark,
You didn't say if your client has either BASIC or Perl handy. Either would
work fine, but here's the BASIC version of a quick-and-dirty solution:
:listfile file@,2
ACCOUNT= ADMIN GROUP= ADMDEV
FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
FILE1 100B FA 8 8 8 16 1 1
FILE2 25B FA 8 8 8 16 1 1
:print file1
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
:print file2
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
:build file3;rec=-125,,f,ascii;disc=8
:basic
HP32101B.00.26(4WD) BASIC (C)HEWLETT-PACKARD CO 1979
>get test1
>list
TEST1
10 DIM L1$[100],L2$[25],L3$[125]
20 FILES *,*,*
30 ASSIGN "FILE1",1,X
40 ASSIGN "FILE2",2,X
50 ASSIGN "FILE3",3,X
60 ON END #1 THEN 120
70 LINPUT #1;L1$
80 LINPUT #2;L2$
90 L3$=L1$+L2$
100 PRINT #3;L3$
110 GOTO 70
120 END
>run
TEST1
>exit
END OF PROGRAM
:listfile file@,2
ACCOUNT= ADMIN GROUP= ADMDEV
FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
FILE1 100B FA 8 8 8 16 1 1
FILE2 25B FA 8 8 8 16 1 1
FILE3 125B FA 8 8 2 16 1 *
:print file3
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
:
HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in
my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
-- Leibniz, Gottfried Whilhem (1646-1716)
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