No way! I don't want a window popping up on my screen each time someone submits a file for processing!

There must be a way to make Star Office think it has access to a GUI but then supress anything the GUI does (StarOffice will not output anything from the macro)

I'll explain a bit about what this is for...

User selects a tar file of Star Office files to upload for processing 
+from a HTML form...

     ||
    \  /
     \/

... these are validated by a Perl CGI script and then placed in a dire
+ctory on the web server for conversion...

     ||
    \  /
     \/

... the CGI script performs a system call to the star office macro to 
+convert all files in this directory...

     ||
    \  /
     \/

... the star office macro creates .html and .pdf output from these fil
+es...

     ||
    \  /
     \/

... files are uploaded to website in the new (correct) file format.

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This "PERL->Macro" stage is the only part the doesn't work!!

Thanks for everyones help so far but I'm still stuck!

M

In reply to Re: Re: Nobody runs programs? by heezy
in thread Nobody runs programs? by heezy

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