File manipulation ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Erich Carlson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 11:25 -0400, 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
>> that I would like to combine into one file containing
>> all of that text.  Nothing I have tried is acceptable
>> to open office?
>>     
>
> have you tried "cat file1 file2 > combinedfile
>
>
>   
Yes, the result was a huge file and OO only displayed one page 
containing the last two lines?

Bob