I agree with John. You're right that unix cat is a good solution for
concatenating delimited files in identical formats (and I think you can
find windows-based cat programs) but that's an unusual use-case. The
problem that John is pointing out is that PSPP and SPSS are assigning
meta-data to
Thank you.
In the case of concatenating the csv files I don't think format specifiers
are essential. As long as the files are of exactly the same format all
variables will align. Once combined the file could be saved then loaded
into the editor (which guesses the formats for each column). That
