Re: Using command line and stdin/stdout with 2.5.1

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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