Well I will be corrected! The email notice that I got from them did not mention
a "demo" version.
-----Original Message -----
From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
To: "'David Boles'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:07:47 -0500
Subject: RE: [expert] Checkbook package for Linux
> There is a demo version available. Limited to 50
> transactions though........... otherwise full-featured
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Boles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Checkbook package for Linux
>
>
> You are looking for Kapitol - It is supposed to be like Quicken only for Linux.
> There is NO "try before you buy" version.
>
> http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/?dhtml_ok=1
>
> -----Original Message -----
> From: Neal Lippman
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:59:27 -0500
> Subject: [expert] Checkbook package for Linux
>
> > A few weeks (?months) ago, I recall reading an announcement on, I think,
> > slashdot, about a company that was producing a quicken-like financial
> > management / checkbook program for Linux. While not a quicken clone per se,
> > looking at their website strongly suggested it was going to be a quicken
> > equivalent for Linux. They were planning a beta release around March 1 and a
> > real release around September 2001. It is not freeware / open source, but
> > looked cheaply enough priced to be worth a look at. Unfortunately, I failed
> > to bookmark the link and now I cannot find any references to it anywhere. 99%
> > of all search results on this topic just point me to GnuCash. (Btw, anyone
> > using that under kde and find it to be stable and worth moving to from
> > Quicken?).
> >
> > With the above vague description at hand, did anyone else see this item and
> > remember where/what it was? I would very much like to try out this software,
> > becase Quicken is just about the only thing causing me to boot up my old
> > Windows computer anymore, since email, web, editing are so much faster and
> > more pleasant on my new linux system anyway.
> >
> > Thanks for any help in advance.
> >
> > Neal
> >
> > Btw: The "other" thing keeping my booting up my old Windows machine is MS
> > Outlook. I have a ton of archived emails in .pst files, and unfortunately the
> > proprietary nature of MS's .pst files makes it hard to move the data over to
> > Linux, since the one format outlook WON'T write out is an mbox file.
> >
> > I am 80% done with a program that will run on a windows system, access your
> > outlook message store (using the outlook com components) and rewrite each
> > folder to a separate file in mbox format. The only thing left to do to handle
> > mail folders is to figure out how to write the mail message itself (eg the
> > mail headers, which I have to built "by hand" as outlook either does not keep
> > them once a mail message is parsed into .pst format or does not provide
> > anyway to access them as such). Anyone expert on mail headers who could help
> > me to finish that part of the program please drop me a line. I can already
> > parse all the folders and accumulate the needed info, I just need to format
> > it for output.
> >
> > Alone with same, anyone expert on vcard format let me know - I can also parse
> > the contacts folder, and it would be nice to output a big vcard file with my
> > >500 contacts and import it directly into KAB.
> >
> > Neal
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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