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[Jason Slaughter]

> If you open up OpenOffice, go to Help->Contents, and then index search for
> "command line parameters", there are some command line options for getting
> OO to run in the background, a-la QuickStart. Incurr the cost at machine
> boot and have fast starting OO during regular use.
>
> I've never tried to do this, so please let the list know what you find.

I've tried using OpenOffice's "quickstart" before. It's done with:

soffice -quickstart

The next document I open loads very quickly. One problem I see however, is 
that when I close the last OpenOffice document, the "soffice -quickstart" 
instance quits as well! So if I load one document, then close it, I need to 
run "soffice -quickstart" again before I open my *next* document. 

Is there any way to keep it persistently in memory, even after closing every 
document?

Right now I'm using the following shell script, which is an awful, evil, hack:

#! /bin/sh
while (/bin/true)
do
    /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice -quickstart
done

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