** Reply to message from Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:31:52 -0600
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:12:19 +0300 > "Stan Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And sure enough, in SuSE Linux, clicking on the > > OOo desktop icon brings up a menu through which one chooses the behavior > > (Write, Calc, etc.) desired at the moment. Evidently those who ported the > > suite > > to various OSes had their own preferences. > > Actually, you can load the various "aspects" of OpenOffice on Linux from the > commandline. > > For example: > > ooffice -calc > > brings up the spreadsheet. But I was trying to explain why OOo behaves as it does on his Mac. > I don't think that Mac machines have a commandline, though, do they? (I > haven't seen a Mac since about 1984, myself.) Perhaps there is a way to > create > a desktop launcher that will send "ooffice -calc" instead of just "ooffice"? How can a Unix-descended OS not have a command line? The question is sincere; where I am, Macs are very thin on the ground, and I have never seen one. > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel 1975 Home-brew with ASM-80 1978 CP/M 1981 MS-DOS 1987 Quarterdeck 1992 OS/2 - eComStation 2007 LINUX openSuSE Thirty-two years (and counting) of happy, Windows-free computing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
