Subject: Re: standalone import/export
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 21:15:24 CDT
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:14:56PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Sam TH wrote:
>
> > internals of AbiWord for the intermediate representation. But, the
> > good news is that you can used the abiword binary on the command line
> > to convert files, like so:
> >
> > $ abiword -to html foo.abw
> >
> > and that produces foo.html.
>
> And someone else suggested
>
> $ abiword --to=html foo.doc
>
> Neither of these work without a GUI. It complains
>
> xset: unable to open display ""
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> It looks like the check for batch mode occurs too late. I will try
> from an xterm when I get a chance. (My kids monopolize the GUI - but
> I can still work. Eat your heart out MS :-) Perhaps the crash in 0.7.14
> doesn't occur when not running the GUI.
That's a bug. I'll see if I can figure out why that's happening.
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