return of capital

[Derek Atkins]

I just tested 1.8-current (which should be close enough to 1.8.10) and
it works just fine for me.  I opened a stock account, typed in my
description, set the transfer account my Bank, then entered '0'
specifically in the price and shares colums, then typed '20' in the
sell column.  Then I hit "enter", and it worked just fine.

So, it could be a new-in-1.8.10 feature, but I thought it was possible
in 1.8.9 as well.

As for Debian, well, it's a libofx issue keeping gnucash out, last I
heard.  Talk to the maintainer(s).

-derek

R W <rpw101ml at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> Derek/
>      Thanks for the quick response.
>
>     As I stated in the start of my message I am using
> v1.8.9. In fact I'm using v1.8.9-4 as obtained from
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/gnome/gnucash dated
> 17 Aug 2004.  This is still the most recent (even in
> "unstable") debian package for i386 although 1.8.10-2
> is available for the powerpc (see
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnucash
>
>
>     It occurs to me that maybe I was doing it the
> wrong way:  I opened the Assetts:Stock:ENV register
> and attempted to transfer out. Maybe it would work if
> I opened Assetts:Bank and transfered in?  Will try it
> tonight..
>
>
>
>
> --- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote: 
>> R W <rpw101ml at yahoo.com.au> writes:
>> 
>> > It seems to me that I need to enter a transfer
>> from
>> > Assetts:Stocks:ENV to Assetts:Bank of $30.  This
>> > transfer needs to decrease the cash balance of
>> > Assetts:Stocks:ENV without decreasing the number
>> of 
>> > shares.  However I couldnt see how to get the
>> program
>> > to accept this.  I would have thought it was the
>> > equivelant of selling 0 shares for $30 but gnucash
>> > seemed unhappy with this and kept telling me I had
>> an
>> > unbalanced transaction.  
>> >
>> > Any clues?  I've been using gnucash for exactly
>> one
>> > day so dont assume anything  :-)
>> 
>> Indeed, this is what you need to do.  What version
>> of GnuCash are you
>> using?  Earlier versions did not accept this.  More
>> recent versions
>> should.
>> 
>> -derek
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>> Laboratory
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