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DOS command to combine or merge text files (Users)

posted by CluelessInSeattl, Seattle, USA, 28.08.2012, 18:12

Hi again!

I had to take a few days off from this project.

The backlight in the hand-me-down laptop I've been using for web access went dead on me a few days ago. And I had a housing authority inspection of my apartment that I had to get ready for, which just plum tuckered me out. Then a couple of days of running errands on my bicycle (I can't a afford a car) that put me to bed for a few days more.

But I've recovered somewhat and now I've got a humongous CRT monitor on a wobbly TV cart rolled up next to my bed, and I've connected it to that screen-dead laptop. And with the aid of an old pair of bifocals I'm able to just barely make out the screen, so it looks like I'm back in business, albeit it rather awkwardly so.

I'm having trouble reading the screen on this old monitor at this distance, so I may have to break down and use up some toner and print out your replies and study them the old fashioned way: on paper.

I'm afraid I won't be checking in here as often as I'd like to, until I can scare up another laptop. I do have an old PC with internet access, but due to a disabling circulation disorder, I don't do very well sitting up (my poor old heart can't get the blood up to my poor old brain, so when I sit up I get even more confused than usual; and anxious and panicky on top of that).

Do you think it would be inappropriate to post a message in this forum asking if anyone has an old laptop that they no longer use?

I'm grateful to you all for the time time and effort you have put into
working out proposed solutions to my problem. You can't know how much
it means to me to know I have virtual friends from all over the world who are willing to help me on this project. It's giving me a new sense of meaning and purpose in the declining years of my life.

---
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Running MS-DOS 6.21

Complete thread:

• DOS command to combine or merge text files - CluelessInSeattl, 26.08.2012, 19:13
  • DOS command to combine or merge text files - ron, 27.08.2012, 00:32
    • DOS command to combine or merge text files - Doug, 27.08.2012, 07:01
      • DOS command to combine or merge text files - ron, 27.08.2012, 08:14
      • DOS command to combine or merge text files - bretjohn, 27.08.2012, 17:40
        • DOS command to combine or merge text files - Rugxulo, 27.08.2012, 20:44
          • DOS command to combine or merge text files - Arjay, 27.08.2012, 21:29
            • DOS command to combine or merge text files - CluelessInSeattl, 28.08.2012, 18:12
              • DOS command to combine or merge text files - Arjay, 28.08.2012, 22:53