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[Linas Vepstas]

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Resending ...

appearently most messages I sent last week were not being delivered.
appearently  ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL87 (25)] is b0rken

--linas

----- Forwarded message from Linas Vepstas <linas@backlot.linas.org>, linas=
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Subject: Re: Reconciliation Problem
In-Reply-To: <3AD64DFC.79691351@exit109.com> "from Jean-David Beyer at Apr =
12,
	2001 08:53:16 pm"
To: Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:49:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@backlot.linas.org>
CC: gnucash-user@lists.gnumatic.com
From: linas@linas.org
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL87 (25)]

It's been rumoured that Jean-David Beyer said:
>=20
>   Starting Balance:    $0.00
>     Ending Balance: $1179.83
> Reconciled Balance: $1179.83
>         Difference:   $-0.00 <---<<< The number is in red.
>=20
> and the Finish button is greyed out.
>=20
> Now if I subtract $57,305.29 from $58.485.13, I get not $1179.83, but
> 1179.84. I infer a round-off error, but how do I fix it so I can
> reconcile this thing?
>=20
> I tried putting in a dummy transaction of $0.01 in there, but that
> does not help. I find I cannot put in a transaction that uses less
> than $0.01, and I imagine I may be off by less than $0.01 or I would
> not get a difference of $-0.00 .

Ugh.

This is a 'feature' that we fixed in the 1.5.x. versions.

You have two possible routes around this:
1) if you are a programmer, hack the reconcile menu to check only to
   within a penny ... or pester the gnucash-devel mailing list ...

2) re-enter all of the transactions specifying only the dollar
   balance (and the share ballance), and let the price be computed=20
   automagically.  This *might* avoid the problem ....

--linas
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