Re: the 'apt' (APpend to Top of file) command

[Mary Bernard <Mary_Bernard>]

Jules and Herb

> When I append the file in the
> current window to a file on disk with 
>
> F9 append [fileB] F10
>
> I continually receive an error message telling me that I have an 
> invalid handle (which means what?). 

Dunno. But I, too, find that the append command works just fine. I get
the invalid handle message, but then a reassuring 'Done'.

One useful difference between 'append fileA,fileB' and 'append fileB',
when fileA is on screen, is that the former appends the file *as last
saved*, whereas the latter appends it (*or* any currently defined text)
as it is on screen, including any additions made since the last save.

I often use this when going through a long text file from which I want to
leave intact, but from which I want to append individual sentences or
parts of paragraphs to other files, each sentence/part para as a new
paragraph in the target file. I turn off autosave in the on-screen file,
and add CRs to either end of the defined text to be appended to the
target file, do 'append fileB', then scroll on through the file,
defining, adding CRs and appending, ad lib. Then I abandon the file
without saving it. This saves all the trouble of removing the CRs from
the parent file as I go along.

Mary

Mary Bernard
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