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Subject: Re: How do you combine PGN files?--not terribly involved with computer chess

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 01:01:57 02/21/01

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On February 21, 2001 at 03:42:05, Peter Herttrich wrote:

>On February 20, 2001 at 16:49:30, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 20, 2001 at 16:36:52, derrick gatewood wrote:
>>
>>>I am making a large book out of individual pgn files from games of a certain
>>>master that plays on the chess servers.  It is very inconvenient to tell the
>>>chess engine to compile each individual pgn file into the book.  I was wondering
>>>if there was any way I could combine the few hundred individual pgn files to
>>>make it more convenient.  If it the process will just be as time consuming then
>>>it is ok,  because I would also like to add these games to a new database and it
>>>would be nice ot have them in one single pgn file
>>
>>PGN is just a text format.
>>
>>copy /b file1.pgn+file2.pgn+...+filen.pgn blob.pgn
>
>derrick wrote 'few hundred' files.
>how do you solve this under DOS (yech)?
>
>Oh boy, unix is so simple.
>'cat * >> target.pgn'    ;-)

You can also use wildcards in MS operating systems.



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