Question on buying new shares (confused)

[Hale Boyes, Kevin]

> Oh, I see! Hmm. This does sound fairly problematic. I haven't saved
GnuCash yet in fear that I won't be able to fix the amounts later
> once the fix is available. Or do you think it should be alright to
save for now? I get nightmares about unbalanced sheets whenever
> I use these tools :P 

I was never able to fix up anything after I'd saved.  I always had to
delete the transaction/trade
and re-enter it again to get it correct.


>>	My work around is to set the LC_MONETARY environment variable
properly
>>	before I run GnuCash.  Sorry I don't know how to do this on
Windows. 
>>	When I'm entering trades that go against a CAD cash account I
run GC as:
>>	
>>	LC_MONETARY=en_CA /usr/bin/gnucash file
>>	
>>	and against a USD cash account:
>>	
>>	LC_MONETARY=en_US /usr/bin/gnucash file

> I wish I could say I understood that, but I didn't. I haven't worked
with Java for such a long time now either.
>
> If I would do this manually, what would I have to do? Transfer, say,
$5000 to what account? Or will that make things worse
> later on? I'm toying with the idea of temporarily transferring funds
to a dummy asset account and using the dummy asset
> account for the stocks so that at least I know the correct amount in
my bank account -- but would this bring on more
> problems than I know? 

I don't think a dummy account will help.  The problem comes from GnuCash
not being able to determine
the currency to use for the split/transaction so it ends up using a
default currency.  You can set
the default currency by setting the LC_MONETARY environment variable
before running GC.

Again, I don't know how to do this in Windows but what I showed above is
how I run the GnuCash
program on my Linux box from the command line.

K.

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