This is an embarrassment for me. I checked and checked and found out that I had copied the same directory in two places and had one shell in one folder and another in another. And so, being the Great And Wonderful (smart and clever also) person that I am, I exported my pdf file into one folder and looked for it in another. At least that's my current story and I'm sticking with it (until tomorrow).
But in a soft way I do think your points are valid. I have had problems with the swriter software and lists. Then again, I contribute nothing to a volunteer effort. I am a passive beneficiary of excellent software that has a few bugs. I also have Microsoft software. In 2000 I tried to report a bug (very hard when dealing with Microsoft). In 2008(?) software, the bug is still there (in lists, by the way). I expect that in 2050 software the bug will still remain in Microsoft but in Open Office the bugs I see today will probably be gone. And so, although OOo is not perfect, they are better than Microsoft dreams of in their better days, and the OOo team seems to want to better the product. art -----Original Message----- From: Anthony J. Rudgers [mailto:anthonyrudg...@att.net] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:07 PM To: Arthur Schwarz; users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Anthony Rudgers Subject: Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary 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"? 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
