Hi Paul,
I've tried the syntax you give but still same problem - that is same syntax
as already entered for open operation under file association. I'll try
changing the association to use syntax suggest by G. Roderick Singleton of
"soffice -calc <file>"
Thanks,
Bryce Stenberg
HRNZ IT Department.
"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Sorry - should have checked version your using. It has recently
changed for Beta 2.0
Try :
<path to OOo install>\program\soffice.exe -o <path to file>\file.xls
This assumes that you have file associations sorted so that .xls files
are opened using calc by default.
/paul
On 5/17/05, Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I tried that but doesn't work - 'scalc' does not exist as an executable
> program.
> The only references to something called scalc are in the <path to OOo
> install>\help\en:
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 183 scalc.cfg
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 925,696 scalc.db
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 704,512 scalc.ht
> 17/05/2005 10:29 a.m. <DIR> scalc.idx
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 451,303 scalc.jar
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 270,336 scalc.key
> 28/10/2004 01:10 a.m. 12,822 scalc.tree
>
> The only reference to anything with calc in name under program is
> 'calc645mi.dll'.
> I'm using Windows XP with OpenOffice 1.1.4.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce Stenberg
> HRNZ IT Department.
>
> "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Try :
> <path to OOo install>\program\scalc <path to file>\file.xls
>
> Worked for me on winxp, 1.9.95
> /paul
>
> On 5/17/05, Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are evaluating changing about 20 desktops from MS Office 2000 to
> > OpenOffice but have one particular problem...
> >
> > Our database application lets users pick Excel as the output for a print
> > job.
> > A tab delimited file is generated with an extension of '.xls'.
> > This file is then 'started' - the default action is that it will open in
> > Excel - with command line like:
> > start MyFile.xls
> > Because of the xls extension this opened in Excel.
> >
> > With OpenOffice installed this command always opens the file as a text
> > document.
> >
> > ** Is there any way to make a tab delimited or comma delimited file open
> > directly in calc from the command line? (eg. can I give it a special
> > file name extension or some flag on open command line to force it?)
> >
> > I've read similar previous posts and the only way I could see suggested
> > was
> > opening Calc and then choosing to open the file manually - this will not
> > work for us - we need it to open directly when called by the application
> > program or from command line.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryce Stenberg
> > HRNZ IT Department.
> >
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