Autoincrement in Num column

2000-02-24 Thread Michael Gerdts
I am new to the list, so feel free to point me to the appropriate part of the list archives if this has been discussed and rejected before. Is there any reason for not allowing + and - to increment and decrement the value in the Num column? That is, if the field is blank and a person hits +, the

Troubles with today's CVS

2000-03-04 Thread Michael Gerdts
The versions of the sources that I checked out today no longer work. Where should I start to look for the "Bad define placement" problem? It seems as though a likely place would be in the ./share/scm/ directory. Are there any helpful hints/references for debugging Scheme code? Or is this an in

Re: Troubles with today's CVS

2000-03-05 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:36:11PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: > This may be related to the problem that Rob B. found with running > out of the build directory and auto-loading the reports files. > I think Rob is fixing this, but in the meantime you might try > an /opt style install so you can ea

Re: Notification: incoming/124

2000-03-12 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:35:43PM +0100, Herbert Thoma wrote: > > Actually I installed slibc7 in /usr/share/guile. I'm sure I installed slib > > correctly because > > I tried to rename slib. In this case the message was: > > > > It appears you do not have the 'slib' scheme ... > > > > Help!! >

Re: Serious GnuCash bug? (follow-up)

2000-03-14 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:28:58PM +, Jan Schrage wrote: > Usually the type of hard drive activity described in conjunction with a > system lockup means that the swap space is full. Might be due to a > memory leak somewhere. That does not need to be gnucash, though. > > -Jan For those of you

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting

2000-04-21 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:38:19PM -0700, Tim Newsom wrote: > If i have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset gnucash will start fine. > If I set it, then I get an error: SLIB not installed > > What should I have in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make gnucash start and still > allow all my other programs that u

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

2000-04-24 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:05:55AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > So, if RHAT splits 2 ways on April 1, 1999, and then again splits 3 ways > on July 1, 2000, there would be two entries: >("RHAT" "1999-04-01" 2) >("RHAT" "2000-07-01" 3) I think that you need to be able to handle fracti

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

2000-04-25 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think it is best to store exact numbers (for example {3 to 5} as a ratio or > > {99 to 165} for the actual number of shares) > > Well, if we were doing this in a scheme with

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

2000-04-25 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:56:02PM -0600, Bryan Larsen wrote: > I have mutual funds that split every December 1. They split to bring their net > asset value back to $10. The ratios are never even. Last time, it was 11.412 > to 10 or something like that. This would also be an exception to the r

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-16 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:56:14PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > > I'm reporting a bug in the RPM version of Gnucash 1.3.7, running on a RH > > 6.2 system. The Account reconcile window has the credits and debits > > columns reversed. > > > > -Jon > > Hi Jon, here is what happened. We r

Re: College project help

2000-05-21 Thread Michael Gerdts
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:09:35AM -0400, Garrett Banuk wrote: > Hello, > I doing my college MQP now, its a large project we have to do in order to > graduate. I was looking around for ideas and saw gnucash and thought this > might be an interesting project to help out the linux community. I