[CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line

[Keith Hellman]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:46:23AM -0700, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> How does one launch an openoffice application, such as the
> spreadsheet from the command line?
> 
> I tried the instructions listed in
> http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/support/applications/openoffice/
> and pages similar to it, but that causes an installation
> program to start.  I know it's already installed, I can
> launch it from the Fedora Core toolbar.

Open Office is in my path, so I just type
  $ soffice file.sxd
(sxd is an OO drawing file).

I've noticed that this fails if file.sxd does not exist, but it
certainly does not launch the installer.

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