combining text files into one composite text file is not a problem - below seems to work.
However i am having difficulty saving the result - maybe i'm standing too close and missing the obvious.
i would like to save etext2 in c:/mydirectory as a new text3.txt
any suggestions will be appreciated:

etext0=FILETOSTR("c:\mytext\words1.txt")
etext1=FILETOSTR('c:\mytext\words2.txt')
etext2="Words of etext0"+CHR(13)+etext1+CHR(13)+"_______________________"+CHR(13)+"words of etext2:"+CHR(13)+etext1 

thanks
k