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Subject: Re: PGN connection tool

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:31:50 04/13/02

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You can use "copy /a" to insist that the files be treated as ASCII, in which
case it should work without having to use a .txt file first.



On April 13, 2002 at 15:27:36, John Merlino wrote:

>On April 13, 2002 at 14:38:47, Jerry Jones wrote:
>
>>http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:KB_vN4AfOe4C:www.enpassant.dk/chess/homeeng.htm+en+passant+chess&hl=en&ie=utf-8
>>
>>I have been looking at this site for a PGN tool to combine many small PGN files
>>into 1 big PGN file without losing a single move. Which one is reliable ?
>
>The easiest way to do it is via a Command Prompt window. Put all of your smaller
>PGN files into one directory, and then type these two commands:
>
>copy *.pgn BigPGN.TXT
>ren BigPGN.TXT Big.PGN
>
>You can't initially use a PGN extension on the BigPGN file because the "copy"
>command will then try to copy the big file into itself. But you can just rename
>the destination file with the PGN extension after the copy is finished.
>
>No tool or utility needed....
>
>jm



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