Some basic 2.01 questions...

[Maf. King]

On Friday 10 November 2006 14:15, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> What I was planning on doing was:
>   reading in a file of transactions
>   accepting a cutoff date from the command line
>   breaking the set of transactions up into the ones before and after
> that date
>   Totalling the transactions before said date so as to establish new
> initial balances
>   writing out two files contiaining the transactions before and after
> and, of course, all the undated information, like accound defiitions and
> th like.
>
>   Is this kind of what everyone would like to see?  The idea is to do
> this *after* all the relevant data has been entered and all accounts
> reconciled up to at least the cutoff date.

Sounds good to me. IANAA nor a Dev!


>
>   Does gnucash 2.xx still use the same old file format?  Or is it
> radically different?  At the moment I'm still using gnucash 1.8.xx
> because my systems are straddling the fence between Debian and Ubuntu
> and upgrades are awkward to coordinate reliably (this involves bugs in X
> and issues that have nothing to do with gnucash, so I won't elaborate
> here).

GC V2.0.x data are still held in an XML file, it seems to be the same format, 
with some extra bits at the start of the file. (IMHO, YMMV etc)

Maf.


>
> -- hendrik