[ale] oocalc: a sad story from a oocalc newbie

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 15:46:47 EST 2008


When I hit Cntrl-C my CLI prompt came back, but a OpenOffice splash
screen was still running.

That splash screen is still on my display (3 hours later).  I have not
tried any "kill"s to shut it down yet.

OO 2.3 with OpenSUSE Linux.

FYI: I'm sitting on a Samba Share mounted via CIFS.  I've had OO do
weird things before when I have done this.  It is a pain.

Greg

2008/3/5 Harold Bieber <harold.bieber at gmail.com>:
> Were you in a terminal window inside your GUI?
>
> If I open a term and type "soffice -calc abc.xls" (or any filename that
> doesn't exist) I get the file not found error.
> If I type "soffice -calc" it opens OOcalc no problem.
>
> Harold
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Okay,
> >
> > I'm sitting at the command prompt in a given directory.  I want to
> > create a spreadsheet.
> >
> > I try "oocalc abc.xls"  and I get abc.xls does not exist. :<
> >
> > I try oocalc -? to see the override switch.
> >
> > It recommends (or that's how I read it)
> >
> > soffice -calc abc.xls
> >
> > I try that and give it a minute or two to open, still nothing.  I
> control-c.
> >
> > I try oocalc with no args at all.
> >
> > It just returns with no verbal info at all, and no gui.
> >
> > I go to my vmware XP install and launch excel....
> >
> > The end of my sad story.
> >
> > Greg
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