Re: Getting quotes several times a day

2000-04-18 Thread Ken Schar
Hi all, Personally, on some (many) days I check the prices more than once and I would certainly agree that it would best for the program to take the latest update for any given day. FWIW, Ken On 17 Apr, Paul Fenwick wrote: > G'day Hubert, > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:50:06PM +0200, Hubert

Re: Reversed-balance accounts

2000-04-18 Thread John Hasler
Tboldt writes: > According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. (Hopefully by the > ninth they got it right). I'm quite certain that Niswonger and Fess had it right by the tenth edition of _Accounting Principles_, which happens to be right here on my desk. > Deposit $1,000 USD into bank

Re: QIF Import from ZKA4BTX

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Gribble
Reinhold Schoeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to import this file, the transaction memo is not imported to > the description field in gnucash. But when I exchange the P and M field > as in the example below, the transaction memo is now correct imported > to gnucash : The Description fi

QIF Import from ZKA4BTX

2000-04-18 Thread Reinhold Schoeb
As a new user of gnucash I found a problem with the QIF import function. I am using ZKA4BTX, a Linux software to receive account datas and send transactions over the German Datex-J (BTX) homebanking system. ZKA4BTX is able to write these informations into CBB-, Xfinans and QIF-files. Here is a s

QIF Import patch + new search feature

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Gribble
I just sent a patch to gnucash-patches, but I'm not sure how quickly it will make it to CVS with Dave gone. I think I have fixed the QIF importer to correctly handle QIF files with multiple accounts. Those who were having problems with it, could you please give it a try and let me know how it wo

Re: Reversed-balance accounts

2000-04-18 Thread tboldt
Accounts - credit - debit According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. (Hopefully by the ninth they got it right). Credit: 1) an entry on the right-hand side of an account constituting an addition to a revenue, net worth, or liability account. 2) a deduction from an expense or asset a

Re: RFC: Bug in currency display in the main window

2000-04-18 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Herbert Thoma wrote: > There is an other problem: the status bar. If in your example > > > export LC_ALL=; export LANG=C > > > > Displays in gnucash: > > > > account namecurrencybalance > > --- > > usbank USD

dlpRecAttr* flags in pi-dlp.h

2000-04-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I've finally found the time to have a look at modifying the expense tracker conduit to support gnucash, and examining the existing code to try and get it to only read new records. It appears that reading the expense data from the existing conduit does not modify any of the attributes (ie dlpRecAt

Re: RFC: Bug in currency display in the main window

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Gribble
Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are absolutely right. "GnuCash does not cover all aspects > of multiple currencies yet", this is a quotation out of the > documentation. In fact it covers very few aspects. I am no expert on either internationalization or multiple currency bookkeepi

Re: multiple currencies

2000-04-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
> Christopher Browne wrote: > > > > > > My inclination (which is somewhat educated in the matter :-)) is to have > > the register report _Cost._ Cost does not change over time, and since > > it tends to reflect cash changing hands, it is _fairly_ objective. > > I agree. But I think that the en

Re: multiple currencies

2000-04-18 Thread Herbert Thoma
Christopher Browne wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:50:05 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as > Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Peter van Rossum wrote: > > > Thanks. I'll look through the archives to see what is said there. I > > > do have the impression, though, that the probl

Re: multiple currencies

2000-04-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:50:05 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter van Rossum wrote: > > Thanks. I'll look through the archives to see what is said there. I > > do have the impression, though, that the problem with multiple currencies > > is even

Re: This isn't exactly development related but...

2000-04-18 Thread Herbert Thoma
Phil Sumner wrote: > > It's the only support I can find :-\ > > I've got gnucash version 1.2.5 compiled and installed, but I'm unable to > actually run the program. I get the following startup msgs: > > gnucash: bootstrap file is/usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/bootstrap.scm > gnucash: [W] "failur

Re: RFC: Bug in currency display in the main window

2000-04-18 Thread Herbert Thoma
You are absolutely right. "GnuCash does not cover all aspects of multiple currencies yet", this is a quotation out of the documentation. In fact it covers very few aspects. There is an other problem: the status bar. If in your example > export LC_ALL=; export LANG=C > > Displays in gnucash: >