Re: Problem with gnucash 1.4.0-1 -- it wants obsolete libraries

2000-06-22 Thread Clark Jones
Dave, FWIW, the mdk object RPMs at the URL you suggested are for 686, and I've got a "586". Someone else (I can't find the e-mail at the moment) suggested tuning off "dependancy checking" (the command line RPM install). I hadn't noticed that I could "uncheck" the "check dependancy" button on

Re: Problem with gnucash 1.4.0-1 -- it wants obsolete libraries

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Clark Jones writes: Dave, FWIW, the mdk object RPMs at the URL you suggested are for 686, and I've got a "586". Someone else (I can't find the e-mail at the moment) suggested tuning off "dependancy checking" (the command line RPM install). I hadn't noticed that I could "uncheck" the

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:18:20PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Autosaving: every autosave_period() time units { if (database_has_changed()) { save_database_to_file("original name.autosave"); if (error) report_error_to_gui();

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Dylan Paul Thurston writes: On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:18:20PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Autosaving: every autosave_period() time units { if (database_has_changed()) { save_database_to_file("original name.autosave"); if (error)

Re: Qif import fail on 1.4.0

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Richard Wackerbarth writes: On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jenny Roy wrote: I am new to using gnucash; just started seriously looking at it on the 1.4.0 version of the software. I'm working at importing a moderately complicated set of QIF files from a quicken 98 version of software.

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Probably the temporary files should be in /tmp or /usr/tmp and contain the process number. If we put them in /tmp, then we really need to use something like mkstemp(char *template) to get a unique name. But I'm not sure we

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Dylan Paul Thurston writes: On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Probably the temporary files should be in /tmp or /usr/tmp and contain the process number. If we put them in /tmp, then we really need to use something like mkstemp(char *template) to get a

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-22 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: Although that's only half the story; the other half is that you do have another amount that needs to be tracked, namely the cost. Right. You must track both the number of units AND their actual cost. It is pretty useless on an ongoing basis,

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-22 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: I believe, historically at least, banks have used "mils," or $0.001. They may use finer divisions now. Currently stock exchanges use sixteenths (or is it eights?), but there is talk of going decimal. I'm quite disappointed in the thought of

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-22 Thread Randolph Fritz
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 04:35:56AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: Or get a computer that knows how to do decimal arithmetic. They used to make those, you know. IBM still makes them. I expect your phone bill is printed by one of them. :) -- Randolph Fritz Eugene, Oregon, USA --

SaveAs label?

2000-06-22 Thread brownh
Sorry for the elementary remarks. I'm back to gnucash after an abortive try at it some time ago. To close the application, one must save the data, but the Save As... dialog that opens strikes me as ambivalent when it comes to the file name. Displayed is a log file with the current date. While

Guile 1.4 Released

2000-06-22 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I'd seen the fact that Guile 1.4 existed mentioned somewhere, but it's now announced on freshmeat. Release announcement is at: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/guile/2000-06/msg00198.html I suppose we should find out what breaks. . .

Re: 1.4.0 check printing

2000-06-22 Thread Bill Gribble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do I understand correctly that check printing has been removed from 1.4.0 and will reappear in 1.5.0? The Help file gives a full set of instructions for printing checks, but Open Check Printing is not in my Transaction menu. That's right. gnome-print isn't

Re: Guile 1.4 Released

2000-06-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:50:13 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd seen the fact that Guile 1.4 existed mentioned somewhere, but it's now announced on freshmeat. Release announcement is at:

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Glen Ditchfield
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: 3. The creation of a GnuCash database file that is a readable but incorrect in a non-obvious way. Such a problem may not be discovered for some time. Such a problem could be caused by a bug in GnuCash or by the user accidentally entering

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Glen Ditchfield writes: On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: 3. The creation of a GnuCash database file that is a readable but incorrect in a non-obvious way. Such a problem may not be discovered for some time. Such a problem could be caused by a bug in GnuCash or by the

Re: SaveAs label?

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Haines Brown writes: Sorry for the elementary remarks. I'm back to gnucash after an abortive try at it some time ago. All comments are welcome, thanks. To close the application, one must save the data, but the Save As... dialog that opens strikes me as ambivalent when it comes to the file

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Dylan Paul Thurston writes: On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Probably the temporary files should be in /tmp or /usr/tmp and contain the process number. If we put them in /tmp, then we really need to use something like mkstemp(char *template) to get a

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
After discussion with some of the other developers, it is becoming clear that most if not all of the problems people are having with rounding and fractional cents are because, in fact, gnucash does not know that there is a minimimum quantum of transactions for certain types of accounts.

Re: SaveAs label?

2000-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
I think someone mentioned an auto-save feature, and that sure would be nice, too, especially if there were a disable option in a Preferences... dialog. How about a single autosave after 30 minutes of no activity in the Registry window? We already maintain a log, which does not eat disk in