`Balance' dialog box.. what is it for.

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Aug 5 00:18:25 EDT 2004


Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> They are... Your problem is that you're not providing the "transfer
>> account" in the basic ledger.
>>
>
> You really mean several dozen don't you.  And add a new one anytime it
> comes up.  I'm only shown the accounts I've created in that transfer
> dialog.  No opportunity to create one is presented. (In the register)

Sure there is.  Type in any account name.  If the account doesn't
exist when you tab out of the transfer column it will ask if you want
to create it.

> Again double the work load for no good reason.  Like most laymen I
> already know where my money went.  Not enough passes thru my hands to
> not be held even in my aging feeble memory.

BZZT.  Read the docs and learn better.

-derek

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