Some basic 2.01 questions...

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:51:59PM +0000, Maf. King wrote:
> 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.

My plan is that anything I don't recognise as a transaction gets copied 
to both files.  That can cause trouble too, but, I suspect, less 
trouble.

-- hendrik

> 
> 
> >
> > -- hendrik
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