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<P>-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> "blfs" <BLFS@COMCAST.NET>writes: <BR>> <BR>> > <BR>> > I glanced through the OFX stuff on the net. <BR>> > <BR>> > There must be code out there somewhere that converts <BR>> > text to OFX. I dont know anything about QIF or <BR>> > OFX but they seem like very different applications. <BR>> > <BR>> > OFX is for secure transactions over the net and I would <BR>> > think it would be rather limited. QIF is an out of the box <BR>> > financial program I understand with limited security. <BR>> > <BR>> > It would seem to me that the most natural way to write <BR>> > Gnucash would be to write it for a flat text file in the Unix <BR>> > tradition. If it is not trivial to translate a flat text file to <BR>> > the format required for Gnucash that is a rather serious <BR>> > design flaw. I can certainly load a flat text file into any <BR>> > database I know of with relative ease. <BR>> > <BR>> > I must be missing something here. <BR>> <BR>> You are. Gnucash IS NOT A DATABASE!!!! <BR>> <BR>> Go read the archives. <BR>> <BR>> -derek <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory <BR>> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) <BR>> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH <BR>> warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available </P>
<P>If you cant query the data easily loaded into the Gnucash program</P>
<P>without using the Gnucash interface that is a problem. I have installed the</P>
<P>program and read a little about it, but I am really stuck on this point that</P>
<P>it cannot import a plain flat text file. I dont understand this. </P>
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<P>Further, if Gnucash is a financial program it is a database no matter how</P>
<P>you want to define database this type of program has to be one. It</P>
<P>is impossible to have a financial program that is not a database.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>