thanks borislav i see i forgot the filetostr's in the middle.
k
>>i would like to combine two text files and display as one.
>>i am certain the key is strtofile but can't seem to get the right syntax to work.
>>thanks K
>>
>>

>>m1.txt + m2.txt = m3.txt
>>
>>#DEFINE SW_SHOWNORMAL       2
>>lcUrl = "m3.txt"
>>oShell = Createobject("wscript.shell")
>>oShell.Run(lcUrl)
>>

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>

>STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR("m1.txt")+FILETOSTR("m2.txt"),"m3.txt")
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