Re: Running OpenOffice from in cygwin.

2007-05-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > d) Anywhere - "swriter /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc" does not open and leaves no > messages. It seems to not like a full path. /tmp/anything is a POSIX path. Only Cygwin apps can understand these kind of paths, because they are a fiction invented by Cygwin. You have to give

Running OpenOffice from in cygwin.

2007-05-12 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
I have been trying to open OpenOffice to read MSWord files from inside a script in cygwin. I figured out how to add OpenOffice to my path, but it still failed. I then went back to trying on the command line. The script had left the document in /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc. So:- a) In /tmp/ME3268 - "swrit