He is saying that it will produce a file on the disk. Empty is probably what
the shell returns if all goes well. The "it" variable would probably contain an
error if things did not go well.
Bob
On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:29 AM, James Hurley wrote:
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200
>> From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents
>> Message-ID: <dcf3260a-5b5c-40b4-becc-4785230e6...@economy-x-talk.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote)
>>
>> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>
> Mark,
>
> This doesn't work for me. It appears to recognize the file name but "it"
> comes up empty.
>
> Does this work on Word files or just Text files?
>
> Jim
>
>
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