Re: Folks seeking help

2014-01-06 Thread Scooter
Good Morning Group, I'm one of the long time "Silent Majority" groupies on this forum or listserv. At this point in time, I am surprised at how well AOO 4.1 works in spite of my overall system Win7x64 bit, which doesn't work because I messed it up. I feel for those who have been unable to unt

Reading and Exporting spreadsheets

2014-01-06 Thread Arthur Schwarz
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.

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Anthony J. Rudgers
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 p

Re: Folks seeking help

2014-01-06 Thread Don Daugherty
On 1/5/2014 9:43 PM, Timothy Wulf wrote: I came to this list a long time ago and have seen a great number of people simply berated for seeking help with what to them is a serious problem. If a user has made their way to this list they are already frustrated, most likely confused and probably an

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets

2014-01-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arthur Schwarz wrote: > 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 u

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: > 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-re

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 06 January 2014 18:28:15 you wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers > > wrote: > > 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 s

Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Think
I have been quietly watching the notes back and forth and have only once or twice ventured into the writing and reading space of this list. Once, someone told me I digressed too much and that I was wrong for having bothered everyone with my verbiage. I was like "wow, dude. I thought the listserv

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Carmen Putrino
Why am I getting this email? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:28 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers > wrote: >> Greetings All, >> >> Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws inherent >> in the present OOo software suit

Re: Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
Does anyone else care to post a "holier than thou" note, or we done for the night? Anyone? Let's get it all out. Then those who remain can get back to actually helping users diagnose their problems rather than pontificate about software quality or list etiquette. -Rob > On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:10

RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Arthur Schwarz
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

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > >> On Monday 06 January 2014 18:28:15 you wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers >> >> wrote: >>> Greetings All, >>> >>> Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws >>> inherent in the present OOo soft

RE: Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Think
I want to ensure clarification of my oped: I never said I was holier than thou. I said, "play nice kids. The world is watching." Snarks not needed. And, fyi, you weren't diagnosing or helping anyone with the comments you were making. If you were, I wouldn’t have penned my missive. Want to go a

RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Think
Who is the moderator of this list? Thanks. Brenda Hart Neihouse -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:rabas...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 11:46 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary > On Jan 6, 2014, at

Reminder on list policy

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
Speaking as a list moderator (yes we do have them) I'd like to remind all posters that threats will not be tolerated on this list. Regards, Rob >> If you want to flame me, you might want to think again. Most of your ISP's >> have a policy of no spam/hate/scam/flame. I have reported people to the

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Peter Junge
Me, beside others. What's your problem? Best regards, Peter On 07/01/14 12:53, Think wrote: Who is the moderator of this list? Thanks. Brenda Hart Neihouse -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:rabas...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 11:46 PM To: users@openoffice.apach

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > > 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 a

Re: Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread TN Patriot
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:09:55 -0500 "Think" wrote: > Once, someone told me I > digressed too much and that I was wrong for having bothered everyone with my > verbiage. They were right. Also, I'm a 'disabled' person and I wouldn't and don't *ever* want you "yelling" at anyone for me. > > I a

Re: Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread TN Patriot
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:49:11 -0500 "Think" wrote: > I never said I was holier than thou. I said, "play nice kids. The world is > watching." Yeah, you said it in a manner that damn near painted a picture of you with your nose in the air saying so. > > Snarks not needed. Only from you it'

Re: Reminder on list policy

2014-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Speaking as a list moderator (yes we do have them) I'd like to remind all posters that threats will not be tolerated on this list. You can ask INFRA to add a link to the list conduct guidelines http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html to the footer of every list post. Als