-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bob Goodwin wrote: > 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. I can't imagine how that would work. Changing the extension won't make the open office files into text files. They will still have the same contents as before and that's why you can't just cat them together. Here's a post from the openoffice.org users list where someone asked how to do this and got two replies offering ways to achieve this: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=114490 (Note that I don't use openoffice with any frequency, so forgive me if I'm missing something.) - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. --Henry Brooks Adams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iQFDBAEBAgAtBQJEy4ypJhhodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBvYm94LmNvbS9+dG16L3BncC90 bXouYXNjAAoJEEMlk4u+rwzjGrcH/RI1nJ1I8QImKpc2OheQpPW1sVoVnMzTLwub F0oC1MPNvvvcJDJt+8EiTttfgNOCpiUUHObG5VJWQV8jYesIp3Jalj/gimx2sgQF x3aNwS2yU+xVhGlOVNTgq/6rWnl5IpskIa3GuHbherrdIAKJdf2y8tAZ8esYejSU fxsH7gVTIpWj4ERPWMxFy/ZLT5ADfly0ZSaB7sXiqgL0oafTn3ZRjGrXuySorqDn ynkdhsgCaeopHwvSnjuBDS1op7Sc9f1RPoJhZAu/NaSI/diuoGwApPTW2JaMydxg HzCuI8fiv/qaHp7lO0EhCRaKx8MTzj7skiT6UOe7KZYH3c8bhlg= =v3UQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
