Re: [Bug-gnubg] Request Position Database

[Holger]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:48:05 +0100, "Øystein O Johansen"
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > cat *.sgf > bigfile.sgf
>>>
>>> Well... I just did...
>>> And it does work.
>>>
>>> I guess I have my 'Postition Database' :-)
>
>> How about making this available from the GUI?
>
>Sure it would be neat, but it will be a lot of work to implement. First of
>all you will need a widget that can select multiple files, since gtk 1.3
>doesn't support this. Then you have to reimplement cat and link it to the
>main gnubg program. Probably not a problem, but not the UNIX philosophy. A
>lot of coding for a feature that probably won't be much used. I rather
>think it would be nicer to support shell escapes from the GUI. The user
>could then do:
>
>! cat *.sgf > bigfile.sgf
>
>inside the "Edit -> Enter command..." window. How difficult can it be to
>support shell escapes on Win32? It works in Unix environments, doesn't it?
>
>If you want to use 'cat' yourself, put this (See attached file: cat.exe)
>file in somewhere in your PATH.

For Windows one can just take:
copy /B file1 + file2 [ + ... ] bigfile

Regards,

        Holger