Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system 
files, like /dev/null in Linux
Date: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012
From: Walther Koehler <w.koehler@onlinemed.de>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Hi,

if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro 
user, and maybe even as a LO user.

It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning 
another high level language.

And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley the shell 
comand, i.e. dir() is quite slow, but calling a shell script with an 
elaborate find command does the task very quick.
or: use sed to run through the odt's looking up the print date or ...

Maybe it might helt with /dev/.. too.

Walther

Although sometimes 

 Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 schrieb Tom Davies:
> Hi :)
> What are 'the best' languages to choose?  Python and/or C++? or something
> else?
>
> I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and
> experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions.  From
> what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to
> rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often.  On the other
> hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher.  I got as far as
> Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all
> soooo far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages
> now (&machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i
> wrote for (at best)).  Regards from
> Tom :) 
>
>
> --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> From: Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system
> files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17
>
> Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote:
> > I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as
> > /dev/ttyS0. If I use "Open" I got the error "Device I/O error" message.
> > Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system
> > files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any
> > other Linux commands.
>
> You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic?
> StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for
> anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst
> implementation of an extinct language).
>
>
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