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

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>  Both of the following work for me:
>
>  soffice file.xls
>  soffice --oocalc file.xls
>
>  Are you sure you just didn't wait long enough for it to start up?
>

I killed it after 3+ hours.  It must be a Samba / CIFS / OO 2.3
interaction issue.

I keep having weird things happen when I use that combo.

Greg
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