Re: Opening StarOffice files from MC doesn't work.

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello, Christian!

> |shell/.doc
> |Open=soffice %d/%p
>
> Thanks, that works. I needed to do "%d/%p&" though not to lock up MC
> with one file. One problem. When I open a .doc file with StarOffice I
> get a lot of garbled stuff at the bottom of the MC screen. It says:
> SIOCGIFADDR got '00:00:00:00:00:00' repeatedly. I have to restart MC
> or open some other file to get MC to work normally again.

Maybe this output also comes from StarOffice?  Then you could try to
redirect it to /dev/null:

Open=soffice %d/%p >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Also Ctrl-L refreshes screen in MC.  It may be useful for you.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin