Re: Quickbooks export format

2000-10-24 Thread Gary Bickford
I'll try to get more information as soon as I can. GB Dave Peticolas wrote: Type Date Num Name Memo Account Class Clr Split Amount Balance Jan - Dec '00 Bill 01/01/'00 Cellular One 2000 - Accounts Payable 6880 - Telephone (21.53) (21.53) Looks like they're still using those

Quickbooks export format

2000-10-23 Thread Gary Bickford
I was part of a discussion some time ago about exporting from Quickbooks (Mac version). I have done a couple of quickie tests, and the output appears to be essentially in spreadsheet format. It appears to be for all accounts. It only includes this year, which only went through April at this

Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Gary Bickford
Folks, I have a fair amount of experience working with databases of all kinds now. My latest installation of SuSE 6.4 auto-installed MySQL and Webmin to administer it and a bunch of other stuff. The following may seem cranky, but it isn't. :O) I just have a strong feeling that the database

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Gary Bickford
That was quick!! :O) OK, you caught me. I estimated, based on the fact that the local grocery store now sells 500 MHz PCs for under $500 with rebate. However the MySQL data is based on a single processor 350 MHz PII (three years old). Folks who are used to watching Access grind away for

Re: Problems with transaction cut/paste

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Bickford
Perhaps the right answer is to have a different function, "move". In fact, the first thing I tried was to 'drag' the transaction from one account to another. Cut/paste was my last resort. I would propose that it's better from a user interface point of view to not change the semantics and

Re: Problems with transaction cut/paste

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Bickford
Dave Peticolas wrote: Gary Bickford writes: 3. There was an issue with debit vs. credit - everything seems to have come into to the pasted account on the wrong side - this may have to do with my setup or the very long chain of interactions between my Palm and GNUcash

Re: DB support?

2000-09-25 Thread Gary Bickford
Jens Müller wrote: Hey, it would be really cool for Gnucash to develop to something as big and complex as SAP R/3... See http://www.opensourceerp.org. These folks had a small presence at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in July. I met the two folks who were there. They both have very

Problems with transaction cut/paste

2000-09-22 Thread Gary Bickford
Folks, I have a couple of problems to report with 1.4.2. These may have been fixed already in 1.5.1? I uploaded some qif data via pm2qif. This went well, except that Pocket Money (PM) doesn't maintain nested accounts - all the PM accounts showed up in the top level of GNUCash. I don't know

Automating creation of accounts

2000-09-07 Thread Gary Bickford
Folks, 1.Is there a way to automatically create a set of accounts, or import them all at once from quickbooks? I am lazy and don't want to run through all those dialogs the number of times needed to transfer my consulting business accounts into gnucash. Thanks, GB -- "We feel that this

Re: check auto-numbering

2000-09-02 Thread Gary Bickford
Kevin Finn wrote: I looked into it a little bit and it had to do with the next value of the number cell which holds the check number. Somehow as my records were loaded, check 535 would be the last one loaded (even after 701), so that the blank transaction at the bottom of the register

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Gary Bickford
-rounding buildup of error) I think you'll never have rounding issues. :O) Gary BIckford ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: suse rpm

2000-07-27 Thread Gary Bickford
Never mind. The installation from rpm appears to actually run, despite the ldconfig problems noted. I also forgot to use -U, so the old version wasn't deleted but that's pilot error. GB Gary Bickford wrote: Dave Peticolas wrote: Gary Bickford writes: I'm running Suse 6.4, upgraded from

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-27 Thread Gary Bickford
This discussion on internal representations reminds me of an idea I had once, which it turns out some economists have also had - move all money to the 'erg standard' - like the gold standard except that the fundamental unit of exchange is the erg. Energy supplies and real-value prices tend over

Re: suse rpm

2000-07-27 Thread Gary Bickford
Dave Peticolas wrote: Gary Bickford writes: I'm running Suse 6.4, upgraded from 6.3. I tried installing g-wrap from the but rpm complains that we need 'guile-devel'. I have guile 1.3.4. I can't f guile-devel as an independent entity. Any suggestions? Did guile come with SuSE? If so

One more item from O'Reilly Open Source

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Bickford
I forgot - Sun not only announce GPL of StarOffice (with other licenses optional - that's another story), they've founded http://www.openoffice.org, whose charter is to be a repository of XML DTDs to push for commoditization of all the office protocols and file formats. They're going to turn

Problem with moving accounts in 1.3.5/dev

2000-07-15 Thread Gary Bickford
I'm running 1.3.5/dev until I can get 1.4.x/1.5 installed. I don't know if the following has already been fixed - if so, please excuse!! I'm noticing that when I move accounts around (I'm still figuring out where things should be), it often - but not always - I haven't figured out the rule -

Re: suse rpm

2000-07-15 Thread Gary Bickford
next week. Anybody else? I'll be staying at the Hyatt (yeah, yeah, tough life - paying for it will be!!) Is there a GNUcash Birds of a Feather? - Gimme a call at the hotel, I don't know what room. I'm registered (or will be) as Gary Bickford. I'm mainly there to learn about the Apache XML stuff

Re: suse rpm

2000-07-04 Thread Gary Bickford
Rolando Roman wrote: someone promised a sus rpm is it avail? There's a suse rpm on the gnucash ftp site, but AFAIK we're still ironing out a couple of dependencies. I'm running suse 6.4, and have a missing 'g-wrap'. Folks running 6.3 seem to have others. I am using Gnome with

Examples of chart of accounts?

2000-07-03 Thread Gary Bickford
going through the account creation process a whole bunch of times. TIA, Gary Bickford. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Engine

2000-07-03 Thread Gary Bickford
This was inspired by reading the discussion on the "Report calculations in the engine" thread. I can see the client/server architecture being very useful, esp. if it can be adapted to allow web interfacing - I could then provide a web interface for each of my clients, and I might even be able to

Re: problems starting on SuSE 6.3

2000-07-03 Thread Gary Bickford
Alternatively, if we can get Stephan Kahnt's RPM's hosted, you might not need to compile it yourself if you don't want to. I've just downloaded the new RPM, will be installing on SuSE 6.4 shortly. GB -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems starting on SuSE 6.3

2000-07-03 Thread Gary Bickford
Gary Bickford wrote: Alternatively, if we can get Stephan Kahnt's RPM's hosted, you might not need to compile it yourself if you don't want to. I've just downloaded the new RPM, will be installing on SuSE 6.4 shortly. GB Well, I tried rpm -i gnu...rpm, and also rpm -U gnu...rpm In both

Should I upgrade?

2000-06-19 Thread Gary Bickford
I don't have any known problems, I'm running 1.3.5. Should I leap out and move up to 1.4? Is there any reason to wait? GB -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding Palm Support

2000-06-17 Thread Gary Bickford
eful money management tool on the Palm. It's really quite surprising how well it works. If someone wants to build an interface, it would not be a bad thing to start with the ability to read in PM's database format (called "PM Financial Posting Standard" or PM-FPS by the author) Gary B

Re: Adding Palm Support

2000-06-17 Thread Gary Bickford
Bill Gribble wrote: Gary Bickford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At this time there's no easy way to upload the data on Linux - one has to use "backup" in JPilot, for example, and then there's no tool for accessing the data. Are you sure there's no export tool? I used the Newt