The Gnucash database?

[blfs]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: The Gnucash database?


> On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 03:27, blfs wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > So why is it not possible to import text data?
> >
> 
> Presumably, because nobody has written an import filter for plain text.
> 
> Although I am not a developer, so this is only IMHO, I'm sure they will 
> welcome code for such a filter over on gnucash-devel...
> 
> Maf.
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I must be missing something.  

Is there some example data laying around somewhere
with instructions on how to load it?  

It seems to me that importing text data would be
trivial if the data is already in flat text format.

Or what format is the data stored in exactly?