edit gnucash file in ubuntu

[Harold]

OK, probably elementary questions....
What is a backend?

How do I find out which backend I am using?

BTW. Looking at the type file in Nautilus, it says it is Gzip.
The archive manager for Ubuntu Gnome is File Roller. Didn't find Gunzip in Synaptic. (Not trying to be funny at all.) At my age by the time I figure out how to do something using the CL, I have forgotten what I wanted to do. 

Thanks,
Harold


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From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
To: Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: edit gnucash file in ubuntu

Hi,

On Tue, August 30, 2011 3:44 pm, Harold wrote:
> I have been using GnuCash in Ubuntu for a few years now. While trying to
> use GnuCash in Windows XP I posted to the group and was told to edit the
> backup file that I was using in GnuCash for Windows. So that got me to
> thinking about editing the file in Ubuntu. After using the archive manager
> to open the Ubuntu file I get an error when trying to extract the file. I
> tried gedit and libre writer. Both game me an error. I thought the file to
> be extracted was a text file. What am I missing here?

The file is GZipped.  You can use gunzip to decompress it down to an XML
file.  Assuming, of course, you're using the XML backend and not the
SQLite backend.

>
> Thanks,
> Harold

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-derek

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