Re: Using command line and stdin/stdout with 2.5.1

Thanks for the comments. It would be a 'nice-to-have' as it would then provide
a common solution for our platforms. Currently, I must monitor the exec'd
process to see when it ends before I can then grab the output file, a bit of a
hack, but...

As Dom pointed out, I raised the bug, so if anyway feels like rising to the
challenge... I'd do it myself, if I knew much about this GUI stuff ;) Server
stuff's much easier!

Thanks
Antony

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> He's actually already filed a bug
> (http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11000). And I was the
> one that suggested that Windows releases the console after the program
> started :) IIRC, it does this if your application's entry point is
> WinMain() instead of main().
>
> Dom
>
> On 5/31/07, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>>
>> I presume (actually, someone suggested it to me, apologies because I
>> don't remember who) that the reason stdin/stdout doesn't work on Windows
>> is because Windows releases the console after the program is started,
>> since we are a full GUI app, and so we don't actually own a stdin or
>> stdout. If this is a big deal for you, please file a bug
>> http://bugzilla.abisource.com - I'm not sure there's anything we can do
>> about it, but may as well record it for the future.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just tried the following on Ubuntu Linux, and it worked.
>> >
>> > abiword --to=html --to-name=fd://1 fd://0 < resume.txt | less
>> > cat resume.txt | abiword --to=html --to-name=fd://1 fd://0 | less
>> >
>> > I'm the author of this feature, but I'm not sure that anyone ever
>> > tested it on Windows.
>> >
>> > Dom
>> >
>> > On 5/18/07, Antony Bowesman <adb@teamware.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I read that 2.5 supports stdin/stdout (from
>> http://uwog.net/news/?p=62)
>> >>
>> >> I just downloaded and installed the Windows 2.5.1 version
>> >>
>> >> I've confirmed that the standard
>> >>
>> >> AbiWord --to=txt FastSavedDoc.doc
>> >>
>> >> works, which creates FastSavedDoc.txt
>> >>
>> >> However, when I try to use the stdin/out mechanism according to the
>> >> examples in
>> >> the above web page I get no joy, e.g.
>> >>
>> >> AbiWord --to=txt --to-name=fd://1 fd://0 <FastSavedDoc.doc
>> >> AbiWord --to=txt --to-name=x.txt fd://0 <FastSavedDoc.doc
>> >> cat FastSavedDoc.doc | AbiWord --to=txt --to-name=fd://1 fd://0
>> >>
>> >> I have Cygwin installed for the last version. Nothing happens and
>> >> there's no
>> >> output. No files are written to the directory.
>> >>
>> >> What am I doing wrong?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Antony

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Received on Fri Jun 1 07:08:40 2007