Jaime,

Instead of

set textmerge to file1.txt
set textmerge on noshow

text
test line 1
test line 2
endtext

set textmerge off
set textmerge to

use the \ and \\ commands

set textmerge to file1good.txt
set textmerge on noshow

\\test
\endtext

set textmerge off
set textmerge to

See that the first like uses \\ instead of \. This will prevent the empty first line.

>I use TEXT...ENDTEXT to create an ASCII file to be exported to an external app. I noticed that my file is created ok with all the data in it, but it starts with an empty line. Can i get rid of it programmatically? Did i forget some setting prior to using the TEXT clause?