Cameron Simpson wrote: > Loooks like that to me too. /bin/sh is perhaps not bash, or bash is > running in "no silly extensions" mode.
That's what I feared, too.
> WHat's wrong with this?
>
> application/rtf; ppthtml %s | lynx -dump -force_html;
Won't work, because lynx doesn't read from stdin, unless you pass -stdin
as a parameter. So
application/rtf; ppthtml %s | lynx -dump -force_html -stdin;
works! Thanks for the hint.
> | Doesn't work either. Unfortunatelly I can't use && to concatenate
> | commands, because ppthtml exits with error level 1.
>
> Then ppthtml is busted, surely?
No, it converts the ppt file alright, but complains that it can't find
something and exits with error code 1.
Thanks,
Viktor
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