File manipulation ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>   
That may be right, I will try changing them to .txt files.

Bob