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doscat -- Command Concatenate a file on an MS-DOS file system doscat device:[/directory/]file doscat concatenates file that is in directory on an MS-DOS file system. device names the floppy-disk or hard-disk device that holds the file system to be modified, e.g., /dev/fha0. You can also build a file of aliases so that you can access the drives as a:, b:, etc. For details, see the Lexicon entry for doscp, which explains how to set up defaults for the dos family of commands. file can name either a single file, or can contain a wildcard character to name more than one file. For example, the command doscat a:foo.c concatenates file foo.c which is on the file system contained in device whose alias is a: (as defined in file /etc/default/msdos). Likewise, the command doscat 'c:/dirname/*.txt' concatenates all files with the suffix .txt in directory dirname, which, in turn, is on the file system contained in device whose alias is c: (as defined in file /etc/default/msdos). In this form of the command, doscat concatenates the files in the alphabetical order of their names. Note that the tail of the command must be enclosed within apostrophes, or the shell will expand the `*' before it is read by doscat. Files /etc/default/msdos -- Setup file See Also cat, commands, dos Notes doscat does not understand compressed MS-DOS file systems created by programs such as Stacker or MS-DOS 6.0 dblspace. If you are running MS-DOS with file compression, you must copy files to an uncompressed file system (for example, to an uncompressed floppy disk or to the uncompressed host for a compressed file system) to make them accessible to the doscat.