Online banking

2000-02-10 Thread David A Fenyes
Hello, Does anyone know what format Quicken uses for online banking/retrieval of transactions from institutions? This would be extremely useful, and I'm wondering how hard it would be to implement. Does quicken use OFX? Thanks, David. -- David Fenyes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Devel

Some Comments

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
Hello, I'm a longtime Quicken user and a longer-time Linux User. I'm finally fed up of rebooting Windows (or VMWare) to run Quicken, and have taken a look at GnuCash as an alternative. I used the CVS version as of a couple of days ago. First, I'll say that it looks very pretty. I have the fol

Offending QIF file

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
Hello, To follow up my own post, here is a QIF file from B of A with improper dates and which imports as 'Quicken Bank Account': --begin-- !Type:Bank D02/25/2000 T-84.07 N PFRY'S ELECTRONICS ^ D02/25/2000 T100.73 N PUS TREASURY TAX REFUND ^ D02/24/2000 T50.00 N PBKOFAMERICA ATM ^ D02/

Re: Some Comments

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
> I'll leave answering this to others who know OFX better, but it was my > impression that it's more for communications than storage. Feel free > to correct me. > You are right. It is a XML-based format for requesting/acknowledging transactions. From what I've read of the spec, it covers ju

Re: Some Comments

2000-02-28 Thread David A Fenyes
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: > What would you like to see as a UI when importing QIF files? I am > guessing that at least there has to be a dialog where the account > names from the QIF file need to be matched with ones from gnucash; it > will likely be possible to make good guesses but they

Re: Some Comments

2000-02-28 Thread David A Fenyes
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: > To clarify, It would be nice to be able to override any imbedded account name and ust specify each time into what account to import (perhaps this could be preset if import is selected from the file menu with an account selected,

Re: next release

2000-02-29 Thread David A Fenyes
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > "Jon D. Slater" wrote: > Use the guile-1.3 rpm, not guile-1.3.4. > Hmm. I have guile 1.3.4 installed, and had no trouble with gnucash from the CVS. Will something break with the newer guile? David -- David Fenyes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Develop

Re: QIF Import Comments

2000-03-03 Thread David A Fenyes
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David A Fenyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > It would be nice if there is an "import" selection in the register window > > > itself, which would

Re: QIF Import Comments

2000-03-03 Thread David A Fenyes
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I'm trying to separate this into a multistage process, so you can see > what's going to happen and have a chance to tweak the importing > process before it modifies your gnucash accounts. Your plan as outlined sounds really nice. The problem comes when you