> When you say nothing happemed I assume you mean the script > never terminated? Yes, you are right. it does not terminate and only blocks the screen.
As stated on the site the script needs some special parameters of Openoffice. Therefore, until I step further, I wrap it around a shell script that I will put in my PATH: #!/bin/bash ###licence ##which licence applies for this script? If not changed it will be released under GPL: #This shell script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # #This shell script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. # #You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this shell script ; if not, write to the #Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA #or read the text online: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt ###script description ##convert from/to openoffice document formats using a script from ##http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter ##see also: http://www.linux.com/articles/61713 #start OpenOffice as a service soffice -headless -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;" #get variables # @1 = SOURCE # @2 = DESTINATION #convert command # /opt/local/pyodconverter $SOURCE $DESTINATION cd /opt/local/pyodconverter/ python ./DocumentConverter.py $1 $2 exit Maybe one day I will be able to do this in python using pyodconverter as a class... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor