Does --add-price-quotes also get currencies ?

[Mike Alexander]

--On May 5, 2009 8:41:43 PM +0100 AmigaPhil <AmigaPhil at ping.be> wrote:

>
> I've just discovered that --add-price-quotes DOES retrieve the
> currency quotes as well, but not the same way as when clicking on
> "Get quotes" from the Quotes Editor.
>
> - With the command line, I get the value EUR-USD (price in USD for 1
> EUR) - From the Quotes Editor, I get USD-EUR (price in EUR for 1 USD)
>
> As my default device is EURO, I guess GnuCash is only using the
> USD-EUR values when doing exchange calculations.  Am I right ?
>
> If so, is there a way to automate the update of USD-EUR when a new
> value is added for EUR-USD (and the other way around) ?

This sounds like <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568945> 
which was fixed in January.  I'm not sure what release (if any) the fix 
has appeared in.

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Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
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