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> On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:28 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers > <anthonyrudg...@att.net> wrote: >> Greetings All, >> >> Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws inherent >> in the present OOo software suite. You do something according to one set of >> seemingly-valid protocols & get one result (or, perhaps, non-result), & then >> you do it according to another set of also-valid protocols, & get an >> entirely different result (or non-result). This, at least to me, would >> indicate that there are instances of differing, &, consequently, >> inconsistent, coding within OOo. I've experienced a similar inconsistency >> in OOo code in another area. >> >> I submit this query. Do proponents of OOo software, want to deal w/ & >> correct such problems, deny they exist, ignore them & "move on" (as embodied >> in the posting: "I'm tired of this thread, can't we talk about something >> else?"), throw up their hands & say that such inherent problems are just "a >> fact of life--so live w/ them," or, simply, verbally abuse & belittle the >> OOo users who point them out to this "community"? > > > So I take it that you have completely diagnosed the problem and > determined that it is a bug in OpenOffice and not a configuration > issue in Cygwin. Wow, that was fast! Maybe now that you've > troubleshooted and debugged the issue you would be so kind as to > submit a patch to fix it? Or write up a report in Bugzilla detailing > how you reproduced the problem and showed that it was an OpenOffice > issue? > > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> Best wishes, >> >> Anthony J. Rudgers >> Orlando, FL U.S.A. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Schwarz >> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 6:48 PM >> To: users@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets >> >> Win7 >> cygwin >> >> I created and saved a spreadsheet, 'ods' ,document. When I try to read it >> using my cygwin alias "alias ods='/ProgramFiles86/OpenOffice\ >> 4/program/scalc.exe'" it (basically) says "what's that" but when I use open >> office directly and use "Recent Documents" it seems to have no problem. is >> my alias correct? I use a similar alias for the writer (alias >> odt='/ProgramFiles86/OpenOffice\ 4/program/swriter.exe') and it works fine. >> >> Now comes the real puzzler (for me), when I export the spreadseet as a pdf >> file, the cygwin shell doesn't recognize it. That is, 'find', 'ls' don't >> recognize the file. It comes up with "no such directory or file. But when I >> go to the Windows explorer or import the file using Adobe, no problem. The >> filename is there bold as lightning. and I have no issue. On the other hand, >> using cygwin, I can't input the file to adobe. >> >> Now for the confounding aspect. Everything works as expected in the writer. >> I can create a pdf file, see it in cygwin, open and use it in adobe, list >> it, and I guess do everything needful. But not when I create a spreadsheet. >> >> Wait, wait. I have (yet) another mystery. When I open a new shell (but do >> not reboot), the new shell shows the created pdf file but now the ods file >> is missing. And, contrary to everything above, I can load the pdf file to >> adobe in the cygwin shell the exact opposite of above. >> >> >> Right now it's an irritation but is there something that I've done wrong or >> someway to fix the problem so that it shows up in by cygwin shell? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
