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

[Dow Hurst]

Greg,
Openoffice normally opens with the working directory set to some
default.  If you didn't set the path to that xls file you wanted to open
explicitly you should get a file not found.  It certainly wasn't looking
in the current directory of your shell.  GIMP works the same way.  Try
gimp in a subdirectory of your home directory on OpenSuSE and it's
default working directory is switched back to your home directory.
Dow


Greg Freemyer 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
>