QIF syntax question

Linas Vepstas linas@linas.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:01:28 -0500


On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:24:17AM +0200, Otto M?ller was heard to remark:
> 2) For each of your synthetic transaction create an
>      <trn:id type="guid">befe990821efe004488bc13444800b9c</trn:id>
>    I assume the guid must be unique in your file and has no deeper
> meaning in it
>    (throw the dice?). I myself used an existing one and modified only
> some
>    characters by counting up.

This should be safe.  Alternately, the command-line tool 'uuidgen'
(on my system, comes with the e2fsprogs package !???) will create one 
for you.  Or  'gnucash-make-guids' to get a bunch at once.


--linas

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