The Gnucash database?

[Derek Atkins]

"blfs" <blfs at comcast.net> writes:

>
> I glanced through the OFX stuff on the net.  
>
> There must be code out there somewhere that converts
> text to OFX.  I dont know anything about QIF or
> OFX but they seem like very different applications.
>
> OFX is for secure transactions over the net and I would
> think it would be rather limited.  QIF is an out of the box
> financial program I understand with limited security.  
>
> It would seem to me that the most natural way to write
> Gnucash would be to write it for a flat text file in the Unix
> tradition.  If it is not trivial to translate a flat text file to
> the format required for Gnucash that is a rather serious
> design flaw.  I can certainly load a flat text file into any
> database I know of with relative ease.
>
> I must be missing something here.

You are.  Gnucash IS NOT A DATABASE!!!!

Go read the archives.

-derek

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