Re: Interfacing with online bank.

2000-07-21 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Keith Refson wrote: > One of the UK banks (which I am considering switching my accounts to > -- hence the message) offers the option to interface with Microsoft > Money. There is apparently no obvious or straightforward way to > download a QIF file (as allowed by my current p

Re: Interfacing with online bank.

2000-07-21 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 06:39:49PM +0100, Keith Refson wrote: > > One of the UK banks (which I am considering switching my accounts to > -- hence the message) offers the option to interface with Microsoft > Money. There is apparently no obvious or straightforward way to > download a QIF file (as

error writing file

2000-07-21 Thread Ed Porras
found this interesting error: 1. start gnucash 2. open an account - so far I have confirmed this with bank and credit accounts 3. start entering a new transaction's description, but don't hit "enter" 4. cancel the transaction 5. try to exit gnucash you should get something to the likes of

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Rob Walker wrote: > 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? Fundamentally, yes. The procedure works best if you have exported all of the data for another set of book

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Eric Mitchell
I think we're both shooting at pretty much the same target here. Richard Wackerbarth wrote: [snip many vs. one] > > How does the user pick which processor to use? How do they configure it > > for their personal situation? > > This problem is not particular to any method of accomplishing the

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread James A. Treacy
At a minimum, could the importer be modified so that you can select which field is used to select accounts when importing, e.g. the Memo field instead of the category (L in .qif)? When importing data from my bank, all the transactions appear to come from a single, blank category. This means all tr

Interfacing with online bank.

2000-07-21 Thread Keith Refson
One of the UK banks (which I am considering switching my accounts to -- hence the message) offers the option to interface with Microsoft Money. There is apparently no obvious or straightforward way to download a QIF file (as allowed by my current poor service, poor value hight-street bank) as th

Re: Compile Error

2000-07-21 Thread Dave Peticolas
"Charles M. Gagnon" writes: > I'm getting compile errors on a Solaris 8 box on the last > gnucash (from CVS): > > Making all in calculation > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/charlesg/src/gnucash/src/calculation' > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -Wall -c >

Re: Working more closely with GNOME

2000-07-21 Thread Terry
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > As a biased observer and gnucash user, I would agree that this is probably good > > with some reservations from a user standpoint. Right now gnucash works with > > both gnome and KDE

cvs

2000-07-21 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been set up to automatically post notification of updates to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so if you'd like to track CVS changes as soon as they are made, you should subscribe to that list. These notifications will be used in lieu of the 'CVS has been updated' messages I used to post. thanks, dave

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: > At a minimum, could the importer be modified so that you can select which > field is used to select accounts when importing, e.g. the Memo field > instead of the category (L in .qif)? When importing data from my bank, all > the transactions appear to c

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Eric Mitchell wrote: > > Rather than attempt to make a generalized > > translation widget that does everything for everybody, I think we should > > look to customized preprocessors that each handle one particular format > > and translate it into a consistent format for importi

Compile Error

2000-07-21 Thread Charles M. Gagnon
I'm getting compile errors on a Solaris 8 box on the last gnucash (from CVS): Making all in calculation make[3]: Entering directory `/home/charlesg/src/gnucash/src/calculation' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -Wall -c expression_parser.c In file included fro

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Jason Rennie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 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?"

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Eric Mitchell
As I just sent to Bill in an email about the QIF importer failing to usefully import data from screwy online account statements: Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: > > At a minimum, could the importer be modified so that you can select which > > field is

Re: question about importing .qif files

2000-07-21 Thread Bill Gribble
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At a minimum, could the importer be modified so that you can select which > field is used to select accounts when importing, e.g. the Memo field > instead of the category (L in .qif)? Automatic guessing of the account is on my feature list for the