Documentation

[Maf. King]

On Friday 29 Feb 2008, Kira Park wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> Thanks for your help; I found and downloaded the file you mentioned
> but there are tons of files and none seem to be the help files. This
> open source situation is confusing for me!
>
> Thanks,
> Kira

Hi, 
It sounds to me like you haven't installed the package yet.  What operating 
system are you running?  What did you download, exactly?

Cheers,
Maf.

>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Quoting Kira Park <kirapark at gmail.com>:
> >  > Hello,
> >  >
> >  > My name is Kira Park, and I'm a Community Economic Development worker
> >  > in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. I am working with a
> >  > development organization in my community in a campo of Altamira in the
> >  > province of Puerto Plata, and one of the things I'm going to be
> >  > helping them with is implementing electronic data and accounting
> >  > systems. I was introduced to gnucash by a fellow volunteer, but in
> >  > looking for the documentation and concepts sheets I'm finding that
> >  > they are only available online, and I don't have regular access to
> >  > internet. Is there a way that this information can be made available
> >  > for download so that I can work with the software offline at my site?
> >  >
> >  > I'd really like to have this stuff available since my background isn't
> >  > in accounting software and I'd like to learn how it works before
> >  > introducing it to my counterparts.
> >  >
> >  > Thanks so much, any help or advice you have to offer would be great!
> >
> >  You can install the "gnucash-docs" package.  That contains the online
> >  help and the concepts guide in HTML format and installs it locally
> >  on your system.
> >
> >  > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >  > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> >
> >  -derek
> >
> >  --
> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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