On 2011-06-27, Stephan Zietsman wrote: > Tom wrote: >> I think on Windows you can "pipe" commands although it's a bit different from >> gnu&linux or bsd. I htink there is a way of piping output into a text-file >> but >> i don't know how. This might work tho >> >> soffice.exe -? | more > > The "|more" option does work when listing help for other types of > commands (such as "help |more"), but unfortunately it doesn't work in > this case. The main difference in this case is that the help text is > not echoed to the prompt (terminal), but it is rather displayed in a > message pop-up, which truncates (cuts off) the text at some point.
According to the code, only UNIX systems get the help text written to the console. Everything else gets a dialog box. ,----[desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx, line 154] | #ifdef UNX | // on unix use console for output | fprintf(stdout, "%s%s", | [...] | #else | // rest gets a dialog box | CmdlineHelpDialog aDlg; `---- -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
