Unable to use security editor to enlist new stocks for Dhaka Stock Exchange

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Smits <bob at rsmits.ca> writes:

> On February 26, 2008 06:52:32 am Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> It's not our fault people don't read the docs.  And changing the
>> interface from the correct one just because people can't read
>> docs just does the interface a disservice.  I'm sure that for every
>> one person that asks about this there are a hundred who just figure
>> it out.  We should cater to the silent majority.
>>
>
> I really must respond to this. For years, now, on many distributions the 
> installation of GnuCash does NOT result in being able to read the help files. 
> You, Derek have been very helpful to me personally and I appreciate it, and 
> so has this listserve but the standard install - at least for opensuse - 
> doesn't install the help file. Please don't blame the users for not reading 
> non-existant documentation.

No, I blame suse for shipping a sub-standard distribution.
The docs work great on Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu.

> And I have tried to follow the convoluted reason why this is so, but don't 
> understand it. 
>
> I have downloaded the html help file and printed it off, but I'm not always 
> near it, nor is it always current.

http://www.gnucash.org/ has an online copy of the docs.

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-derek

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