File manipulation ?

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:25 AM -0400 7/29/06, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>Can someone tell me how to combine a number of
>text files into one file?
>
>I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files

Those are not text files.  That is your main problem.

>that I would like to combine into one file containing
>all of that text.  Nothing I have tried is acceptable
>to open office?
>
>I am running updated FC5 and have been trying to do
>this from the command line, then opening the result
>in open office.

That won't work.  You need to do this in OOo.  It's what knows how to
handle .odf files.
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