He is saying that it will produce a file on the disk. Empty is probably what the shell returns if all goes well. The "it" variable would probably contain an error if things did not go well.
Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:29 AM, James Hurley wrote: >> >> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200 >> From: Mark Schonewille <[email protected]> >> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Jim, >> >> get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote) >> >> This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille > > Mark, > > This doesn't work for me. It appears to recognize the file name but "it" > comes up empty. > > Does this work on Word files or just Text files? > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
