Re: ignore my last quote (not)

2001-05-10 Thread Paul Fenwick
be most interested in hearing about it. All the best, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, Senior Consultant | I have a hope for the human race." Obsidian Consulting Group | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: Finance::Quote questions...

2001-05-09 Thread Paul Fenwick
m. Yes, that is a problem. Yahoo and potentially some of the newer modules which provide wide-access quotes can be coaxed into providing information from widely different sources. For some sources we *CAN* be sure, for others it might require some more jumping through hoops. I'd rather not

Re: TIAA-CREF & finance-quote-helper

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Fenwick
st traded price, yield, and so on, depending upon what you're actually dealing with. If you want to avoid price because sometimes it contains non-dollar values such as percentage yields, then you might want to do something like: $value = $info{last} || $info{nav}; providi

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-14 Thread Paul Fenwick
7;ll probably still be a little scarce until then. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: Remarks on GnuCash 1.4.1 (fwd)

2000-07-20 Thread Paul Fenwick
add new sources, and I'm always happy to answer questions. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: quotes

2000-07-19 Thread Paul Fenwick
d failovers will kick-in automatically if available. Man-pages area available online at <http://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=4232>, and I'm very happy to answer questions and/or review code. I'll work on rolling in F::Q 1.0 into the GnuCash tree over the weekend. Cheers

Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Fenwick
it's something I intend to do sooner or later regardless. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Fenwick
can think of? I'm happy to work on all the immediate goals above. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-07 Thread Paul Fenwick
ve suggested, an install from CPAN works well if you can't find an RPM. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-05-31 Thread Paul Fenwick
7;s exactly what I would like. Very much appreciated, Dave. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato.net/person/pjf | I have a hope for the human race." PGP KeyID: 0xB1479E55 | -- H.G. Wells PGP signature

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-05-31 Thread Paul Fenwick
ry) doesn't strike me as a feature that would be used very often. There's also the potential for people to accidently enter a transaction into another account, and the user having to hunt down the rogue transaction. (Scrub does this well if you use double-accounting, but not everyone does.)

Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-05-31 Thread Paul Fenwick
rogress. I haven't quite finished catching up with all the mailing list archives during the time when I was unsubscribed to the list. All the very best, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, http://www.advogato

Re: How to get German mutual font quotes with gnc-prices ?

2000-05-03 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day everyone, On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:20:03PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: [assorted snippage throughout] > > >> Unfortunately the funds from Union Investment www.union-investment.de > > >> are there also not available. > > > > > >try this site (sory it is in German): > > > > > >http://bbb

Re: Non development related question

2000-04-20 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Jason, On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:20:33PM -0500, Jason Godfrey wrote: > I am thinking about setting up some sort of Accounts Payable acount. When I > get the bill for my rent, I would apply the amount to the Expense : Rent > account and transfer from the Accounts Payable account. Then when

Re: Feedback

2000-04-20 Thread Paul Fenwick
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:10:18PM -0600, W. Scott Wilburn wrote: > 1. Split transactions. From some of the mail, it sounds like this may now >exist. Split transactions have existed for a while. Try the following: * Enter an account, and go to Register->Style->MultiLine.

Re: Getting quotes several times a day

2000-04-17 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Hubert, On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:50:06PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > I am having trouble getting stock quotes several times a day and having them > updated. It looks like they don't get updated if the stock has already a > price for the day. This cause me trouble since the stock pric

Vanguard investments

2000-04-14 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day GnuCash people, I've been writing a regression testing suite for the stock-quote functions of GnuCash. I was wondering if anyone has investments in the Vanguard group and has been using gnc-prices to keep up-to-date with their funds? If you have been, could you let me know the tic

Re: Dividends

2000-04-13 Thread Paul Fenwick
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:11:29PM +1000, Paul Fenwick wrote: > Having something which can fetch currency data and update things in > GnuCash accordingly sounds like a good idea. I'll see what I can > do about this. I'm going to find myself in a similar situation >

Re: Dividends

2000-04-13 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Hubert, On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:29:51AM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > How hard would it be to allow the stock ticker to fetch the stock price in > USD (any currency), convert to the account currency and compute the real > price ? Tricky. The stock-ticker fetches stock quotes in the

Stock symbols being eaten by register.

2000-04-08 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Everyone, Something seems to be eating stock-symbols in GnuCash. The following revelas the bug nicely: * Create a new stock account. Enter a stock symbol (doesn't matter what) and save. * Edit the new account. Verify that the stock symbol is still

Bug: Adjust balance ignores date preferences

2000-04-08 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day GnuCash Developers, I've found a small (but very irritating) bug in the GnuCash `Adjust Balance...' function available from the register. It appears to ignore the date format preferences of the user, and displays the date in US format instead. For example, today is the 8th

Re: so many files

2000-04-04 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day everyone, A possible idea to keep down the total size used (not necessarily the number of files) would be to split the monolithic GnuCash data file into seperate files for each year (or some other timeperiod). Backups of files are only made when they change. Most activity

Re: Quote.pm

2000-04-04 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day All, On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:50:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds good to me. I am cc;ing the mailing list to make sure we don't > end up with a versionitis problem. No problems with that here. ;) > > I expect the site will be operating shortly. If you > > would li

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day GnuCashers, On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:07:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, the *theory* was that efveryone who mainipulated financial data > would be backup-paranoid. Each date-stamped *.xac file is just a > backup of the last time you clicked on 'save'. Each date-stamped

Re: cvs 2000-04-02

2000-04-02 Thread Paul Fenwick
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:10:52PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > CVS has been updated. [snip] > + a patch to configure.in. Let me know if this >clears up the 'NONE/...' problems people have >been having. Just did a clean re-build and install, and it appears that the change has worked

Re: gnucash startup error

2000-04-02 Thread Paul Fenwick
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 09:05:26AM +, LE NY Yannick wrote: > I have downloaded the latest CVS, > now it compile and install fine. > But when I started gnucash, I have this error: > > [root@localhost bin]# ./gnucash > ERROR: In procedure open-file: > ERROR: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce t