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Hmm... it seems to me that the only useful files to combine would be ASCII (text) files, and not binaries.
However, in *nix you can append files (what copy file1+file2 does in DOS) by typing this: cat file1 >> file2. I'm not sure whether the cp command has something similar (can't check now... at work).
I actually did some research last night and found out that the answer to my problem is cat file1 file2 > newFile. In response to the above statement it is useful in the following situation.
Lets say you were making an emulator to run on a system such as the Gameboy Advance where all GBA files are a single Binary image. So in order for this to work, you must append the image of the console being emulated to the GBA image to get a single image you can burn to the Flash Linker. I've been doing work on the Gameboy Advance for awhile, but I want to start moving all my developement work to Linux.
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