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

[Harold Bieber]

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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