Re: Requirements for an integer-based value representation

2000-06-28 Thread Randolph Fritz
I discussed this with an old banking software consultant I know; a man who worked at some of the big New York banks in the 80s--Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover, Chase. Turns out that they did their customer money computations, including interest computations, in fixed-point decimal, seven digits

Re: Bug in transaction report?

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Peticolas
Matthew Vanecek writes: > Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > Matthew Vanecek writes: > > > Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > I went back and reviewed the accounts, searching for differences in the > > > ones that did and didn't work. After I set the view to the entire date > > > range, instead of the curre

Re: backup v2

2000-06-28 Thread Glen Ditchfield
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > But what if some catastrophic event happens while the modified log > file is written to disk? Couldn't you possibly lose the entire log? I think not, but I don't know for sure. I was thinking that GnuCash would open() the log for appending only

Re: Bug in transaction report?

2000-06-28 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Dave Peticolas wrote: > > Matthew Vanecek writes: > > Dave Peticolas wrote: > > I went back and reviewed the accounts, searching for differences in the > > ones that did and didn't work. After I set the view to the entire date > > range, instead of the current year, I noticed that the Opening Ba

Account Samples...

2000-06-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:28:51 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Something caught my attention that deserves praise: > > At least in the versions of Quicken that I've used, there's a limit to the > size of catagory names, and "sub-catagories" are even m

trouble while compiling against guile-1.4

2000-06-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Martin Willemoes Hansen writes: > Hi! > > I just tried compiling gnucash, after I upgrade my guile interpretter > from 1.3.? to guile-1.4 and it resulted in a compile error: > > gnc.c:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > gnc.c:56: parse error before ^POINTER_ARRAY_s

Re: gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-28 Thread Arnold Troeger
Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > Arnold Troeger writes: > > > I can do this for Mandrake 7.0. Would that help? Just tell me where to upload > > the rpms. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand > > ---

Re: Kudos, and a suggestion...

2000-06-28 Thread Bob Stanfield
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Clark Jones wrote: > Something caught my attention that deserves praise: > > At least in the versions of Quicken that I've used, there's a limit to the > size of catagory names, and "sub-catagories" are even more severely limited. > This makes for some very awkward abbreviat

Re: Problems with make

2000-06-28 Thread Arnold Troeger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > i have a problem whith make gnucash 1.4.1 the error is > > > > > > make all-recursive > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99' > > > Making all in debian > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' > > >

trouble while compiling against guile-1.4

2000-06-28 Thread Martin Willemoes Hansen
Hi! I just tried compiling gnucash, after I upgrade my guile interpretter from 1.3.? to guile-1.4 and it resulted in a compile error: gnc.c:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gnc.c:56: parse error before ^POINTER_ARRAY_smob' gnc.c:56: warning: type defaults to nt' in d

cvs 2000-06-28

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been updated. New Stuff (Development branch): + The register fonts are now configurable from the preferences dialog. dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Money transfer between accounts

2000-06-28 Thread Ralf Gorholt
Hi, I just have tried to transfer money between two accounts who have different currencies. That's something I do regularly at least once or twice a month. Unfortunately this seems impossible, because I get an error message which indicates the fact that the two accounts have different currencies.

Re: Documentation

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Peticolas
"Ralf Gorholt" writes: > Hi, > > I have a question just to prevent a double work: is there anybody already wor > king on a german translation of the GnuCash documentation? If not, even if I > am not a financial expert, I would try a "free" translation, which means tran > slating it how I underst

RE: Problems on Slackware 7.0 Dist.

2000-06-28 Thread Shawn Lee
if it is list in /etc/ld.so.cache, then it should be found... sdl -Original Message- From: Jon Trowbridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:16:01PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: (3) Something funny happened, and you have libqthreads but it isn't being found. In th

Re: Problems on Slackware 7.0 Dist.

2000-06-28 Thread Jon Trowbridge
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:16:01PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > Budman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This isn't referring to QT the graphics toolkit; it's QThreads, the > guile cooperative threading library. qthreads should be a part of the > standard guile distribution; try running 'guile-confi

Re: Problems on Slackware 7.0 Dist.

2000-06-28 Thread Bill Gribble
Budman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I gave the 1.4.1 version a try on my system. Installed the g-wrap, and > configure worked fine. However when I tried to compile, after a few > minutes, I get the following message: > > /usr/lib/libguile.so: undefined reference to `qt_abort' > /usr/lib/libguil

Problems on Slackware 7.0 Dist.

2000-06-28 Thread Budman
Hi, I gave the 1.4.1 version a try on my system. Installed the g-wrap, and configure worked fine. However when I tried to compile, after a few minutes, I get the following message: : /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/local/lib/glib

Re: Problems with make

2000-06-28 Thread
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > i have a problem whith make gnucash 1.4.1 the error is > > > > make all-recursive > > make[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99' > > Making all in debian > > make[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `

Re: Problems with Make

2000-06-28 Thread Bill Gribble
"Alessandro Seveso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a problem with Make , the error is Your error message isn't detailed enough to diagnose a problem. Are you sure you captured all the compiler's output? Thanks, Bill Gribble -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to:

Problems with Make

2000-06-28 Thread Alessandro Seveso
i have a problem with Make , the error is   make  all-recursivemake[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99'Making all in debianmake[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian'make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.make[2]: Leaving directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian'Making all in docmake[

Kudos, and a suggestion...

2000-06-28 Thread Clark Jones
Something caught my attention that deserves praise: At least in the versions of Quicken that I've used, there's a limit to the size of catagory names, and "sub-catagories" are even more severely limited. This makes for some very awkward abbreviations. GnuCash at least has much larger fields for

Problems with make

2000-06-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i have a problem whith make gnucash 1.4.1 the error is > > make all-recursive > make[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99' > Making all in debian > make[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > make[2]:

Re: Some minor problems in "reconcile"

2000-06-28 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > ... in the reconcile window, > > > > So they act just like check boxes. > They have more information than check boxes. Some can have 'c' to > indicate a 'cleared' transaction. Reconciliation forms a partition on the entries within an account. Eac

Documentation

2000-06-28 Thread Ralf Gorholt
Hi, I have a question just to prevent a double work: is there anybody already working on a german translation of the GnuCash documentation? If not, even if I am not a financial expert, I would try a "free" translation, which means translating it how I understand it, maintaining the meaning and

Problems with make

2000-06-28 Thread
i have a problem whith make gnucash 1.4.1 the error is make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99' Making all in debian make[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' Ma

Re: backup v2

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Peticolas
Glen Ditchfield writes: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > This is the second version of the backup proposal. > > ... > > When GnuCash starts, it should check for the presence of the log file > > and, if it exists and has a later modification time than the main > > file, GnuCas