I'm not sure why do you need TEXT...ENDTEXT. Try

\\<<m.lcFileContent>>

Or even simpler

STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR(sometextfile), lcOutputFile, .T.)

>I'm using the TEXTMERGE command to combine several text files into one as follows:
>
>

>SET TEXTMERGE ON TO myfile.txt ADDITIVE
>
>FOR m.liFile = 1 TO 10
>   * variable 'sometextfile' below will change to a different filename...
>   m.lcFileContent = FILETOSTR(sometextfile)
>   TEXT PRETEXT 1+2+4
>   <<m.lcFileContent>>
>   ENDTEXT
>ENDFOR
>
>=CLOSE(_TEXT)
>

>
>After running this code, the resulting file always has an empty line preceding the contents of each individual line even though I've specified the PRETEXT value of 2.
>
>Is this a bug or am I screwing up somewhere?
>
>TIA
>Mike