Startup questions

Benoit Grégoire bock@step.polymtl.ca
Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:01:02 -0500


On December 24, 2002 08:04 pm, Neil B. Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been lurking on this mailing list a long time, and I finally
> succeeded in getting v1.7.6 installed on my machine - managed to fight
> my way through all the RH dependencies and everything. However, I did
> install the RH7.3 RPM file and I have a couple of questions.
>
> First and most important - my bank will only provide me with OFX files,
> which is one reason I have not spent a lot of time with gnucash in the
> past. Does the version I installed know how to import an OFX file? I
> have libofx installed. But the File->import menu item only lists QIF
> files -  what do I need to do to import an OFX file?

./configure --enable-ofx
make all

> Second, if I succeed in importing the OFX file - will that let me assign
> transactions to specific accounts? Once I've done it one time, will it
> remember those transactions for future file imports?

Yes

Good luck,
-- 
Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/