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    Well if dms "repack" can create "splits".......then there sure ought
to be a way to put the pieces back together right???  Sorta reminds me of
the nursery rhyme, "Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall......"

    There's a few points to be made.
    1.  The joining process is sorta "backwards".  The first file is joined
        to the second instead of the USUAL MODE where the 'first named' file
        will be the result.  i.e.
        
        cadappend fred1b.dms fred1a.dms  
        rename fred1a.dms fred.dms

        NOW: fred.dms will write from track 0 to 79.

    2.  Strip old "texts" before joined files!!!
        
        If you don't then the joined files will have all those buried
        texts, ads, etc in the new file.  Use one of Tarheel's or others
        dms text strippers to get rid of everyone else's BBS ad.

    I tested this extensively to see if it caused errors.  While I'm sure
that as soon as I say it will not that IT WILL.......in over 100 files of
DOS/880/MFM I didn't have a single one fail (and I left all the texts on
several to see if that would bother it too and stripped from others.)

    BTW- if you don't have "CheckDMS" yet...you sure should have.  This
is a program "custom written for me by Mike Thomas (Ami-Express) that 
precomputes the sizes of "repacking" certain tracks.....or if you give
it the size it will tell you which tracks from either 0 or 79 [yea in
forward/reverse] you need for that size.


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 CADappend.DOC - 16/April/91 - Caddy,Defjam
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   CADappend is a utility that merges two DMS files into one.
 It attaches the source DMS file to the destination DMS file.

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 Who made it? What for?
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   CADappend was written entirely in machine language by Caddy of Defjam.
 It is dedicated to all Amigoids in the known world! It was made 
 because some people were getting tired of using WARP to crunch several
 tracks at once!
   You can always contact CADDY if you have any problems, or bug reports
 at my Po BOX:
                       CADDY
                       Po Box 154
                       Narre Warren
                       Victoria,3805
                       AUSTRALIA!!
 or call this board:

            THUNDERDOME            +1 (415) 964 1576
            (96-19.2 kbaud)

 and leave mail to:    CADDY

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 Why should I use CADappend?
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 * Written by CADDY/DEFJAM, means no lazy bugs, cool error handling!

 * %100 Amiga Machine language, no "c" port overs!

 * Everyone  should use this, to crunch several different tracks
   at the same time!

 * DMS offers better crunching then warp+append!

 * Appends Text+Tracks!


 How do I use it? 
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 First DMS the tracks you want appended in different files, for instance

 Track 0 in RAM:FILE1.DMS
 Track 75-79 in RAM:FILE2.DMS

 Now just use CADappend to join the two files together!


 1> CADappend ram:file1 ram:file2


 See, no ".DMS" needed! Now, "FILE2.DMS" will contain tracks 75-79 followed
 by text(if any) and track 0(from "FILE1.DMS"!)
 You may want them the other way round, in this case,


 1> CADappend ram:file2 ram:file1


 And now both of the files will be in "FILE1.DMS" and track 0 will unDMS
 first!