[Summary] return of capital

[R W]

Derek/
     Did what you suggested and it worked perfectly! 
Must have been suffering from the dreaded "fat finger"
before.  Thanks very much for your assistance.


 --- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote: 
> 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
> >> -- 
> >>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT
> Media
> >> Laboratory
> >>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing
> >> Board  (SIPB)
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> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media
> Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing
> Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/   
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