edit gnucash file in ubuntu

[Harold]

I gave the file a .gz extension and was able to open it in Firefox as an XML file.

Thanks,
Harold



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From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
To: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>; Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>; Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: edit gnucash file in ubuntu

At Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:54:35 +0200 Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> 
> On dinsdag 30 augustus 2011, Harold wrote:
> > 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.
> It's possible File Roller won't unzip the file because it's not using the .gz 
> extension. I know the gzip tool itself is pretty picky about this (to prevent 
> you from accidentally overwriting the original file).

File Roller may also be wonky since the file is not an 'archive' -- it
is a single compressed file.  File Roller might be expecting a
compressed tarball, or a zip file or rar or cpio, etc. and may not
sanely gronk a single compressed file.

> 
> If you give your data file a .gz extension, will File Roller then unzip it for 
> you ?
> 
> 
> Geert
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