<Don Inghram wrote:>

>Ok, here's probably a simple question, but the tired brain can't come up
>with an answer, so:
>Within a command file, I need to merge two datafiles together into a third
>file.  Normally I would use FCOPY to merge the files but can't figure how
to
>do that in a command file.  Thanks for any clever approaches.


Don,
    I would use the HP supplied program "merge.pub.sys". Any number
of files can be merged very quickly with just a few commands and have
the resulting file collated simultaneously.

e.g.
(please note that merge uses the chevron prompt)
run merge.pub.sys
>input data1, data2, data3....data9
>output newdata
>key 10,20    (with the additon of ",desc" the results can be in descending
order)
>end

(lots of merge statistics.....)

There are numerous merge examples on the HP LaserRom.

Good luck...

                      Eric Sand
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