Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.

2012-02-29 Thread Harry Simons
Looks, like you want me to read the code which I was trying to very much avoid. It is still not clear from the soffice --help or from the various posts that I have combed so far if it is or is not possible to specify a connection string to a headless listening soffice server. I mean, does one h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Simons
$ ls foo.txtls: delme.txt: No such file or directory$Sorry, the delme.txt above is a typo. it should be$ ls foo.txtls: foo.txt: No such file or directory$(Basically, I'm issuing the 'ls' command to show that foo.txt did not get created.)On 02/29/2012 01:05 PM, Harry Simons wro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Simons
Hey Andreas,Please treat this question as a headless question from a headless one.I'm on RHEL 5, so cannot used Windows-based solutions. LO being multi-megabyte is not an issue as long as it works.I forgot: Did you play with the command line options of LibreOffice?Yes, I have been play

[libreoffice-users] Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Simons
Hello. Using LibreOffice 3.4/3.5. I want to run LibreOffice in--headlessmode for converting files from .doc to .txt, and want to try outboththe socket and pipe methods. However, what is not clear to me is this... 1) With thesocketmethod: If I specify an arbitrary port (instea