Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-03 Thread Herbert Thoma
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: As I see it, we seem to have some implicit common currency that we use as the "native" currency for a particular set of books. Here in the USA, it would be USD, but in Canada, it would probably be CDN. In either case, if I have one account in each currency, I

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ben Stanley writes: In Australia, we currently have a curious system. The smallest unit of currency is 1 cent (AU$ 0.01), which is what bank accounts are kept in. However, the smallest coin is 5 cents. All cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. Thus, the denominator

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Phillip J Shelton writes: Hello, I have not had any experience in using any of the major non-free money software, and have only used one small shareware to mimic my bank statements. So the following is probably trivial but please bear with me, I would like some clarification. I

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-08-03 Thread Dave Peticolas
Robert Graham Merkel writes: Niklaus Giger writes: Hello, I am starting the translation of the GnuCash HTML-manuals into german. Do I just have to copy the doc/html/c/*.html files into a new doc/html/de directory? Or do you use any tools (docbook, SGML, XML)? No,

Re: Backup feature?

2000-08-03 Thread Phillip J Shelton
"Peter C. Norton" wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:54:15PM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: #ifdef OFFTOPIC One thing that I'd really like is a proper backup system designed for use with CD-R(W), which supports a variety of backup strategies (including incremental and

Re: Backup feature?

2000-08-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:14:24PM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote: Rather like the tar and dump systems for tape? Every backup tool has the same goal. Tar is an archiver, though, not a backup tool, and dump is also more archive-oriented. The filesystem log hack that I've seen done gives you