have an old AT that is used in business that i need to reinstall an exe file that is written over two 5 in floppies. have novell network and have tried everything two get the two files together when i use standard copy commands 2nd part of file writes over first part. it won't let me do the renaming SAYS it's duplicate. any copy commands that will let me write each part to hard disk? can't use zip on program. been tryin SINCE oct 04 can't find any one who knows. must be a command somewhere since it was written on two different floppies . company who wrote went out bus, in 85. and can't find any one who can convert my files over to a NEW program so i am stuck. thanks bob rich. [emailprotected]Wow! An AT. I have one myself still running PC-DOS 7 (the VERSION that came with REXX)...I guess it keeps me humble.

I found lots of splitter/joiner programs on the net, but they all seem to work in tandem. The join program only joins files that were split with its counterpart. You could try and see if they work, but it's doubtful. There are no switches to DOS copy that will help you out here.

Good luck. Have you Tried to copy disk1 to a folder then disk2 to a different folder,then maybe you can combine the files into a single folder?
Just A thought.Do the files have extensions other than .exe??FD#1 contains filename1.exe
FD#2 contains filename1.exe
You want to combine these 2 into 1 file?

1. Rename FD#2 filename1.exe to filename2.exe
2. Copy filename2.exe from FD#2 to FD#1.
3. Copy filename1.exe /b + filename2.exe /b filename3.exe /bthank you very much it worked. i have tried for 6 months and four different so called experts and known of them new how. very similar to what my dos book said but you made it understandable thanks again bob rich