On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:28:51 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Something caught my attention that deserves praise:
>
> At least in the versions of Quicken that I've used, there's a limit to the
> size of catagory names, and "sub-catagories" are even more severely limited.
> This makes for some very awkward abbreviations.
>
> GnuCash at least has much larger fields for account names -- to the point tha
t
> I haven't run into the limit yet, and haven't been abbreviating things at
> all! Good work, folks! :-)
>
> Now, a suggestion:
>
> It might be instructive/helpful to beginners/etc. to have a set of fairly
> common "accounts" as a loadable starting point for keeping track of your
> personal checking account. (Things that many/most people would find useful,
> such as "income:salary", "expenses:Mortgage payments",
> and "expenses:Car:Insurance".) Yes, I've seen the list in the documentation,
> but it would be nice to have the "package" (RPM/tarball) include the "data
> files" that have them pre-entered. (Or do I need to RFM again? :-)
Give it a wait until GnuCash has a text-based import scheme.
Given the text scheme, it should become easy enough to write up some
sample hierarchies that are easily encoded to be loaded into GnuCash.
[I suppose that means I'm offering to do some work on it... I've got
the CORBA book draft in, so I'm no longer _insanely_ busy...]
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