Re: Debian installation

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:42 -0600, Jonathan Corbet > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jonathan> I've even gone so far as to put the vaunted Debian unstable Jonathan> on a system and try the apt-get command that I was so smugly Jonathan> told would bring me instant gnucash nirvana. No such l

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:18:01 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > said: cbbrowne> a) Having to have libs installed in some GnuCash-specific cbbrowne> place, so that there might be several copies of the _same_ cbbrowne> GNOME libs if one had GnuCash as well as RHAT as well as cbbrowne> Ximi

Re: Balance sheet report for a sub-group of accounts

2001-06-17 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:49:55 +0200, Christian Stimming > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christian> I think it's the user's responsibility to get the account Christian> hierarchy right. In fact, I could imagine a credit card Christian> that *is* an asset, namely, if I had transferred money t

Re: gnucash 1.6

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Walker
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:02:13 -0400, "James A. Treacy" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: James> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:17:01PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: >> The earliest availability of an easy-to-install gnucash-1.6 will >> probably be via Ximian's Red Carpet updating service. James

Re: two bugs in 1.6.0

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Walker
> On 14 Jun 2001 01:12:39 -0400, James LewisMoss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: James> Whoa. That's messed up. Can you send me an strace of it doing James> this? (Please just to me not the mailing list.) If it was James> going to not find a symbol it should have not found it long James>

two bugs in 1.6.0

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Walker
I am running a debian unstable machine. I can provide dpkg -l | grep output if needed. I start gnucash, and three windows pop up, the splash screen, centered, the "Welcome..." window, and the "tip of the day" window. I wait for the splash screen to time out. I now have the tip and welcome win

Re: date confusion

2001-06-04 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:46:36 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas > Vepstas) said: Linas> It being so close to 1.6, I decided its unwise to hack in such Linas> a change without consulting anyone. What's the opinion out Linas> there? Is it a bad idea to make this change now, or is it

new gnucash! hooray!!!

2000-08-13 Thread Rob Walker
should we put up a new news notice? rob Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:50:18 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Authentication-Warning: delerium.i.sourceforge.net: nobody set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SourceForge File Release N

Re: Linux World Expo

2000-08-11 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:29:06 -0700, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Hi All, Linas, Rob Browning, Bill Gribble, and myself are going Dave> to be at the Linux World Expo next week in San Jose as Dave> representatives of Gnumatic, the company which is supporting the Dave>

Re: Accounting standard for "one month ago"

2000-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:27:05 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Robert> As previously reported, I'm adding a new type of option for Robert> relative dates. I'd like to add a relative date for "one Robert> month ago". My simplistic definition for "one month ago" o

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-24 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:18:28 -0700, Clark Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Clark> Bill Gribble wrote: [...] >> 1. gnc_commodity knows about the smallest possible transactional >> unit for trading the commodity (for example, 1/100 of a US Dollar >> or 1/1000 of a mutual fund share).

question about importing .qif files

2000-07-20 Thread Rob Walker
one of the sourceforge people today asked me about gnucash, and after i raved about it for a few moments, he said, "I have 3 1/2 years of data there, will it create these new accounts for me as it goes when it encounters my new categories while I do my imports?" I told him I would check. rob _

interesting file download stats...

2000-07-20 Thread Rob Walker
https://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=192 and note how often the 1.5.0 has been downloaded compared to the 1.4.2 release. and we thought people wanted a stable version :-) rob ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: register style

2000-07-17 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 05:03:24 -0400, Richard Wackerbarth >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Richard> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Rob Walker wrote: >> >> The default register mode is nice, and I use it, but what about >> >> reme

Re: register style

2000-07-16 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:35:42 -0700, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Rob Walker writes: >> >> >>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:49:21 -0700, Dave Peticolas >> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: register style

2000-07-16 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:49:21 -0700, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Jason Rennie writes: >> Is there any way to have one's register style (e.g. single line, >> auto double, etc.) saved with the register? I like to used auto >> single style, but I don't want to have t

Re: problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-16 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:20:50 -0700, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Rob Walker writes: >> >> I did a completely fresh checkout, and then the following occurred: >> >> Making all in gnome >> mak

problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-15 Thread Rob Walker
I did a completely fresh checkout, and then the following occurred: Making all in gnome make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rob/src/cvs/gnucash/src/gnome' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src -I../../src/engine -I../../src/g-wrap -I../../src/guile -I../../src/register -I../

interesting downlod numbers

2000-07-14 Thread Rob Walker
https://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=192 even though the 1.4.2.tar.gz was set up incorrectly as version 1.2.4, it is still being downloaded. however, not nearly as much as the 1.5.0 !! rob ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: Helixcode have packaged gnucash 1.4.1 for Debian

2000-07-09 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:23 +1000 (EST), Robert Graham Merkel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > However, you might want to wait until they fix the packaging bugs > ... they've packaged 1.4.1 with g-wrap 0.9.4 and haven't patched > the incompatibility. Robert> Otherwise, you could check o

Re: cvs 2000-06-26

2000-06-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:13:04 -0500, Kevin Finn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kevin> Tip suggestion: Kevin> Type + in the Num field of the Kevin> register to fill in the next check number. Type - in the Num field of the register to fill in the previous check number. rob -- The cynics

Re: gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:40:37 +1000 (EST), Robert Graham Merkel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Robert> Dave Peticolas writes: >> The correct way to solve this problem would be to build a binary >> package on a mandrake system, and have mandrake users use that >> instead. Ditto for SuSE, e

Re: cvs 2000-06-26

2000-06-26 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:42:11 -0700, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> + Robert Graham Merkel's tip-of-the-day patch. We need tips! If Dave> there was a tidbit of information you wish you had known when Dave> you started using GnuCash and/or started tracking your finances

Re: announce list?

2000-06-26 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:12:12 -0600, Jeremy Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jeremy> Would anyone be interested in an announce list? Something yes. Jeremy> that only got a new email when a new release was made? With a Actually, I already get that functionality by 'watch'ing the

Re: New to GnuCash and more...

2000-06-23 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:04:32 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Richard> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Rob Walker wrote: Bill> This is basically like a Quicken category; as you get more Bill> paychecks, the balance of the ac

Re: New to GnuCash and more...

2000-06-23 Thread Rob Walker
> On 23 Jun 2000 16:17:00 -0500, Bill Gribble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> "Ralf Gorholt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What about for example my salary? In this case, money arrives on my >> bank account but I don't have a counterpart for it because it's the >> account of my emplo

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:29:31 -0700, Clark Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Clark> Moving on: I've been using Quicken for a number of years, and Clark> it is about the last "practical" thing that I regularly use Clark> Windows around for. (There are still some games, but that's a Clar

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-23 Thread Rob Walker
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:38:47 -0700, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> It might be good to keep files in the same directory as much as >> possible, picking another name if necessary. I think Emacs handles >> all these cases pretty well; it might be worth looking at how it >

downloads yesterday.

2000-06-21 Thread Rob Walker
sourceforge.net is showing 2271 downloads yesterday, making it the top download for yesterday by 600. Jeremy, any numbers on the official site? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Return on investment of stocks/mutual funds

2000-06-21 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:09:02 -0500 (CDT), Dave Dribin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> I've just downloaded GnuCash 1.4.0, and I'm very impressed! I Dave> am very interested in tracking my mutual fund and stock Dave> performance in GnuCash. I would like to be able to calculate my Da

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-09 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:15:09 -0700, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Rob Walker writes: >> >> >>>>> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:40:14 -0500, Scott Haug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>>>>

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:40:14 -0500, Scott Haug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Scott> I thought Dave would answer this, since he gave me the answer Scott> when I first asked this question. But he didn't, so I will. Scott> In all GNOME (GTK?) apps, you can assign your own hotkeys to Scott>

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 08 Jun 2000 09:49:02 -0500, Bill Gribble >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> good! That's readline behavior. I think that C-w needs to be >> removed from "close the regis

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 23:07:31 -0400, Matthew Lepper > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Matthew> 1) Ctrl-W doesn't close the register window, it seems to do Matthew> something approximating delete-word-backwards good! That's readline behavior. I think that C-w needs to be removed from "close

Re: color picker colors

2000-06-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:41:29 -0500, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Linas> Hi, Linas> While fiddling with the color picker in gnucash, I noticed that Linas> the spot colors that it picks do not quite match what's in the Linas> register. That is, I pick a color, click on 'apply', a

Re: sample chart of accounts.

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 22:38:24 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > Also, 'anyone can later load into gnucash', will those who already >> > have accounts running in gnucash (myself included) be able to load >> > this chart of accounts into gnucash and keep running?

Re: sample charts of accounts

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 18:28:27 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> I think I will fire up quicken now and see what their charts look Rob> like. Any objections? I opened up "Quicken 5 for Windows", and clicked on

Re: sample charts of accounts

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:45:43 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>>> On Sat,

Re: sample charts of accounts

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:34:50 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> http://www.bookweb.org/misc/member

Re: sample charts of accounts

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:34:50 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> http://www.bookweb.org/misc/member/scoa.html Rob> and a longer, explained one, Rob> http://www.bookweb.org/misc/member/scoatext.html Rob> but t

sample charts of accounts

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
http://www.bookweb.org/misc/member/scoa.html and a longer, explained one, http://www.bookweb.org/misc/member/scoatext.html but this is specifically for the american booksellers association. still looking rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: sample chart of accounts.

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 03 Jun 2000 19:11:30 -0500, Bill Gribble >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I also don't know if there is any way to "export account list" or >> "import accou

sample chart of accounts.

2000-06-03 Thread Rob Walker
I began creating a 'correct' list of accounts, as shown in "help, chart of accounts" and I got a few entered in. I used the numeric examples above to implement the accounts shown a little below, under "A Sample Chart of Accounts". Then I realized, "Hey, this should be a menu item!" I will be g

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:37:30 -0400 (EDT), Hendrik Boom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hendrik> By the way, is there a maximum allowable size to the memo Hendrik> field, cheque number field, etc? (I don't care if there are Hendrik> current limits on how much is displayed (these are at worst

cvs build problems.

2000-05-17 Thread Rob Walker
rob@biffhero-laptop:~/src/cvs/gnucash$ cvs -z3 update -Pd && nice ./configure --prefix=/home/rob/compiled/ && nice make gnome && nice make install resulted in the following: rm obj/gnome/gnucash-item-edit.d.tmp gcc -Wp,-MD,obj/gnome/gnucash-style.d.tmp -c -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -DCELL_W

Re: The Single Entry Approach

2000-05-17 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 17 May 2000 21:59:08 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Maybe there could be an option which was "default all categories to >> misc", which would keep people from having to do the "categorize >> every transaction" thing when they don't want to. Christophe

gnucash contribution

2000-05-17 Thread Rob Walker
I think that one of the greatest contributions of the gnucash project to the world would be the following: Explain the accounting terms credit and debit in such a way that "my gramma" can understand it, and in a concise enough way that I am not reminded of my college accounting textbooks. Also

Re: Use of Sleepycat DB

2000-05-17 Thread Rob Walker
> On 16 May 2000 22:26:43 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: rlb> So instead of having: rlb> my-gnucash-file.gnc/data rlb> my-gnucash-file.gnc/budget rlb> my-gnucash-file.gnc/recurring-transactions rlb> my-gnucash-file.gnc/someuser.lock rlb> we'd just have rlb> my-gnucash

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-17 Thread Rob Walker
> On 16 May 2000 16:36:00 -0500, Bill Gribble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> "Jon A. Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Eliminating single-entry would be a mistake IMHO. Who wants to >> learn a new system of accounting just to balance their checkbook? Bill> But my question

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-16 Thread Rob Walker
> On 16 May 2000 10:40:15 -0500, Bill Gribble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> Not too long ago, there were "common sense" labels for Bill> everything: liabilities, assets, expenses, income. The problem Bill> was that they didn't make much sense. If you can come up with a Bill> set of

Re: Use of Sleepycat DB

2000-05-16 Thread Rob Walker
> On 16 May 2000 10:16:58 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: rlb> - It appears the db format has changed in the past, and changed rlb> again from 2.X to 3.X, requiring a dump and load to migrate. rlb> This isn't a big deal, but it's somewhat inconvenient. This rlb> might be

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-15 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 16 May 2000 00:31:06 -0500 (CDT), "Jon A. Christopher" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jon> I'm not using gnucash's double-entry features. Perhaps that'd be Jon> the best solution---if using single-entry, use the informal Jon> meanings of credit/debit, and if you're doing double e

Re: Use of Sleepycat DB

2000-05-15 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 15 May 2000 22:45:16 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> On 15 May 2000 22:10:21 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Christopher> Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> However, after poking around in the db docs (from now on, when I >> sa

Re: ILOVYOU

2000-05-11 Thread Rob Walker
On the crackmonkey list, where I first heard of it, it was billed as a virus "on the honor system". > On Thu, 11 May 2000 23:20:43 -0500, Linas Vepstas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Linas> Warning: I just received the following Unix/Linux virus/worm. Linas> If you get a copy of this email

Re: Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-11 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2000 12:39:02 -0700, Randolph Fritz >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Randolph> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:38:16AM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >> >> yes, the size _has_ grown immensely, but I have just gotten back a >>

Re: Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-11 Thread Rob Walker
> On Thu, 11 May 2000 00:01:21 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> If instead, you want to do XML, take e.g. the code linas> Note by the way, that you've replaced 8 bytes with about 35 linas> bytes and so your files sizes will be 4x bigger than they are linas> today. gzip might hel

Re: Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks onmail

2000-05-10 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 10 May 2000 23:39:48 -0500 (CDT), Tim Mooney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Tim> In regard to: Re: Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was:...: Christopher> There _NEEDS_ to be a data format, possibly the "text Christopher> export," that can both be exported _AND IMPORTE

Re: Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-10 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 10 May 2000 22:10:37 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> someone said, "Well, I guess it is okay if there is a way I can >> export to text, and import elsewhere. I just _hate_ it when >> someone thinks they can hold _my data_ hostage." Christopher> It see

Customer feedback WAS Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-10 Thread Rob Walker
> On 10 May 2000 18:26:20 -0500, Bill Gribble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> There *are* free alternatives. Free in this case means that if Bill> we make gnucash depend on it, we don't restrict people's Bill> abilities to use and distribute gnucash. Re: using a separate, standalone

Re: Order of transactions

2000-05-01 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 1 May 2000 22:17:43 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Richard> On Mon, 01 May 2000, John Hasler wrote: >> Christopher Browne writes: >> > We thus have _three_ times: >> > >> > a) The moment at which you incurred the transaction, >> > b) The moment at which

Re: Order of transactions

2000-05-01 Thread Rob Walker
> On 01 May 2000 22:06:07 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: John> Christopher Browne writes: >> We thus have _three_ times: >> a) The moment at which you incurred the transaction, >> b) The moment at which the effects of the transaction hit your bank account, >> and >> c)

Re: Order of transactions

2000-04-29 Thread Rob Walker
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 12:52:06AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > Is there any way to control the order of transactions within a day? > > With my check register, I get situations where gnucash sometimes posts > > large withdrawals before deposits, resulting in apparent negative > > checking bala

Re: [VA-Tech] X windows question. Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak? (fwd) (fwd)

2000-04-25 Thread Rob Walker
okay, I forwarded the post about memory problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where we are fortunate to have some people working on X all the time. Here is the best answer I received. rob --- start of forwarded message --- From: Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rob Walker &

Re: Stock Options and Futures

2000-04-24 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:51:07 -0700 (PDT), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: nathan> A brief description, as i understand it, please bear in mind nathan> that i'm neither an accountant nor a tax professional. Rob> s/splits

Re: Stock Options and Futures

2000-04-24 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:49:13 +, nathan wagner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: nathan> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:12:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] nathan> wrote: >> This is probably a good idea, but someone more familiar with options >> will have to speak up here... nathan> Hmm... i'm

Re: What's the proper accounting way to handle a stock split?

2000-04-24 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:38:22 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> Only because we do not run gnucash with 'force double entry' linas> enabled by default. Otherwise, it would always automatically linas> balance. We don't enable it because of a fear that for linas> beginers, it migh

Re: What's the proper accounting way to handle a stock split?

2000-04-24 Thread Rob Walker
> On 24 Apr 2000 13:52:33 -0500, Bill Gribble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> I was just pointing out that there are a variety of ways to Bill> account for cost basis and we shouldn't make policy decisions in Bill> the engine at transaction time unless there's only one legal way Bill>

Re: What's the proper accounting way to handle a stock split?

2000-04-24 Thread Rob Walker
> On 24 Apr 2000 11:06:41 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> Second, this seems a little messy. What if you have bought and Rob> sold a stock 10 times over the past 5 years, and most of the Rob> sells were only fractional (say you needed some cash for Rob> something),

Re: Personal Versus Business, Glade

2000-04-21 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:08:29 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> The _severe_ problem with that is that Glade doesn't have Christopher> anything that corresponds well to the Register Window. As I remember. Christopher> But it's just not got the potent a

Re: LWN

2000-04-20 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:07:56 -0600, Bryan Larsen >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bryan> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rob Walker wrote: >> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:15:00 -0600, Bryan Larsen >> >>>>> <[EMAIL P

Re: LWN

2000-04-20 Thread Rob Walker
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:15:00 -0600, Bryan Larsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bryan> 1. better investment reports. This requires a strategy to Bryan> deal with things like commissions and dividends. My opinion is Bryan> that this should be dealt with via meta-information. We Bryan>

Re: LWN

2000-04-20 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 20 Apr 2000 17:34:16 -0500, Bill Gribble >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Bill> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For some reason I think that gnucash is focused too much on the >> non-personal finances, unless yo

Re: LWN

2000-04-20 Thread Rob Walker
> On 20 Apr 2000 13:37:15 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: John> Bill Gribble writes: >> Why is that? We are improving gnucash, putting it into a box, and >> providing support and a printed manual. All the development we do >> on gnucash is and will be GPL. John> The ma

Re: make gnome fail

2000-04-14 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:56:37 -0700, Ken Yamaguchi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ken> It works for me. Did you "cvs update -Pd" to get the Ken> src/engine/guid directory? that worked for me. thank you. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: make gnome fail

2000-04-14 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:55:27 +0200, Hubert Figuiere > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hubert> make gnome fail since I have updated to the last CVS. Hubert> Here is the error: Hubert> gcc -Wp,-MD,obj/gnome/MultiLedger.d.tmp -c -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. Hubert> -I.. -I./engine -I./eng

Re: Dividends

2000-04-11 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:34:06 -0700, "David G. Paschich" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> stock split! please! I will be glad to test that one out! David> Me too! David> Also, under the aegis of "stock split" may come such annoying David> things as "stock-for-stock merger" and "st

Re: Dividends

2000-04-11 Thread Rob Walker
> On 11 Apr 2000 13:32:00 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> Patrick Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I looked at most of the archives, and I didn't see much mention of >> how stock dividends would fit into the GnuCash framework. There >> was some mention in the Q

Re: subaccounts

2000-04-09 Thread Rob Walker
> On 07 Apr 2000 22:55:48 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: John> In the main window my parent accounts show balances that equal John> the sums of the balances in their subaccounts, but when I select John> a parent account and open the account I see no entries at all. I exp

Re: menus and data structures.

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On 06 Apr 2000 20:31:43 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> I was just thinking about this today. Having the menus be more Rob> configurable (i.e. all generated from scheme) is on Dave and my Rob> list, but it's not at the top right now. that's cool. rob -- Gnucash

menus and data structures.

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Walker
I am afraid that I know the answer to this already, but I saw the following text on an xemacs mailing list today, and I thought that it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in gnucash. rob This is what I set up for s/o that had printed a 10M buffer by mistake. I don't know if it's the

Re: Too much Paranoia about RCS?

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:26:43 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: cbbrowne> This makes the questionable assumption that rcs does nothing cbbrowne> to check for errors. RCS is *quite* mature; I've been using cbbrowne> it since the late 1980s, and this is an error condi

Re: so many files

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:26:55 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> 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 fi

Re: so many files

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:49:13 +1000, Paul Fenwick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> A possible idea to keep down the total size used (not Paul> necessarily the number of files) would be to split the Paul> monolithic GnuCash data file into seperate files for each year Paul> (or some other

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:20:10 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> fprintf (fh, "%d\n", numAcc); >> >> Interesting. I tried to do it with sed, but my sed-fu is weak. linas> Well, its a little more complicated than that... I thought so, but it might have been worth a try. >> why d

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:37:41 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> It's been rumoured that Rob Walker said: >> >> Christopher> d) Store *text* backups, checked in to RCS :-). >> Christopher> Option d) [RCS] is a *prime* reason why I

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:47:53 -0500, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> d) Store *text* backups, checked in to RCS :-). Christopher> Option d) [RCS] is a *prime* reason why I would argue for Christopher> using a text-based data format. Agreed completely. Howe

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:27:22 -0500, Scott Haug > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Scott> I might save several times a session. Those half meg backups you shouldn't _have_ to hit save, as emacs users already know: C-h v auto-save-interval RET `auto-save-interval' is a built-in integer varia

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:19:36 +1000, Paul Fenwick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> (2) Configurable directory to place backups. This would allow that's brilliant! as a matter of fact, it is so brilliant, emacs has already done it, thus cementing that idea into the "brilliant idea hal

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:07:40 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> Anyone have a better idea on how to have backup-paranoia linas> without cluttering up the directory too much? text (XML?) data files and RCS directories, with ,v files therein.. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To u

Re: T-shirts

2000-03-31 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:18:15 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I'd also love to be at Comdex Chicago, but, unfortunately, I don't >> think I can con the university into funding my trip :( Christopher> I'd tend to think that a "limited run" GnuCash T-shirt Christ

Re: impressions of a new user

2000-03-29 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:56:25 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> An alternate would be to record the last check number entered and >> bump that. That would require storing non-financial per-account >> data across invocations, and guess what... we need that >> for

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
> On 28 Mar 2000 10:36:54 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> I like this one better, it saves developers from doing tech support. >> Q: "Why is my something doing something I don't understand?" >> A: "Make clean, and retest, then come back to us." Rob> OK, so we have tw

Re: Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
> On 28 Mar 2000 10:16:45 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> Oh, and if we do this move, do we want to keep the "README." Rob> prefix on everything? i.e. do we want: Rob> doc/README.build-process Rob> doc/README.guile-hackers Rob> etc. Rob> or is it sufficient to have

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
> On 28 Mar 2000 00:48:50 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: rlb> 1) Have it so that g-wrap is only configured/built once after a rlb> make clean. This means that if you monkey with g-wrap or do rlb> anything else that would change it's assumptions about the world, rlb> you

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:53:50 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> The num cell in the register now has accelerator keys. Press + Dave> or = to increment by 1 and - or _ to decrement by 1. For good Dave> measure, you can press ] or } to increment by 10 and [ or { to

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:53:35 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> The num cell in the register now has accelerator keys. Press + Dave> or = to increment by 1 and - or _ to decrement by 1. For good Dave> measure, you can press ] or } to increment by 10 and [ or { to

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:44:09 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> CVS has been updated. Dave> New Stuff: Dave> + Bill Gribble's updates to qif importing and check printing. Dave> + Jan-Uwe Finck's updated de.po file. Dave> + Fixed a problem with getting translate

Re: num cell

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:51:19 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Is anyone working on an improved 'Num' cell in the register? like with autoincrements, and everything? Dave> If not, I will go ahead and make one. I thought about it, asked for it, started to do it,

Re: Adding Palm support

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Walker
> On 21 Mar 2000 11:21:50 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> (which I'm still not sure I'm going to use a lot). Frankly, if I Rob> could get it tightly integrated with things like BBDB, then I'd Rob> be a whole lot happier with it, but that's a non-trivial Rob> underta

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:11:09 +0100, Herbert Thoma > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> bottom? Only for the times when we resize it down by hand? But if >> someone touches _any_ of the column widths, the entire register >> window will careen back to the big size again. Herbert> That's a p

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