chart of accounts

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 8:28 am, John Sowden wrote:
> each line might look like:
> 613.0    Rent

But these are arbitrary numbers that you have invented, GnuCash can only 
support these if you enter them by hand for each account.

> no balances, etc.  I see they are working on a trial balance which is like
> a chart of accounts with debit or credit balance amounts.

If it's only for a paper copy, why are the balances a problem? Change the 
report options to a set of dates that are very old. Or just tippex the 
balances out. (UK paper correction fluid, tippex).

> What I am going to do with it is:
> Have a paper copy to refer to when the program is not running, and
> One my  Suse 8.0 machine is my good accounts list; I want to copy them to
> my Suse 8.2 machine (not networked).

But it presumably has a floppy drive or a USB port or some other method of 
transferring the GnuCash file - then you'd get the full data set, not just 
the account names.

>
> I don't know  perl of xml.  I do know foxpro/dos, and I am patiently
> waiting for an easy version of it to appear in the linux world.

This FoxPro?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/
1992 (June) Microsoft merged with Fox Software in a $173M operation 
http://www.foxprohistory.org/foxprotimeline.htm
(me thinks that was less of a merge and more of a takeover - even in 1992, 
Microsoft was quite a bit larger than Fox, but hey, that came from a FoxPro 
site so they are allowed to see things with rose tinted spectacles.)

As a long time microsoft product, you are likely to have to wait a VERY long 
time before it is released on GNU/Linux! We could all be dead by the time 
that happens.
:-)

Learn MySQL instead.


> John
>
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:21, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 October 2004 7:26 am, John Sowden wrote:
> > > How do I save the complete chart of acounts (including sub-accounts) to
> > > a file, so I can print it and save it externally to gnucash?
> >
> > Do you mean just the list of accounts (including sub-accounts) but
> > without any transactions? (You aren't trying to print the entire GnuCash
> > file?)
> >
> > What's wrong with the Account Summary report? You can change the report
> > depth to include all sub-accounts.
> >
> > What are you trying to do with it after you save it?
> >
> > If you work on a backup copy of your GnuCash XML data file and you know a
> > little Perl or XSL, you can extract all the information you need. Just
> > don't expect to be able to modify the data in the real file.

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