10th December 1999

Sometimes it's not wise to keep a thousand separate text-based files on your hard drive, when you could consolidate them into one. How many 'Internet Shortcuts' do you have lying around? Sure, each one may be under 200 bytes, but they're each taking up much more space (4,096, 8,192, etc.). If you're in a cleaning mood, move all your small text files to a new folder (like 'URL' files, for example). Now, drop to a command prompt within Windows (run COMMAND.COM) and navigate to that newly created folder. Type: "COPY *.* WEBSITES.TXT" (without the quotes). Of course, you can use specific extensions (*.TXT, *.DIZ, *.URL, etc.) and a different output file name. In the end, you'll have one large text file instead of several small ones.