[GNC] General Ledger

[Adrian Yong]

My reply below in red bold letters.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:53 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> No, it is a csv, but you have the option to specify an extension or not.
>
> Linux and Mac don’t generally care if a file has an extension. They
> determine the file type independent of it.
>

*Ok... Point noted.*

>
> Windows on the other hand does rely somewhat (if not exclusively) on the
> extension. (not sure if that changed in Win10 or not)
>
> *I am using Win10*


> You don’t always have to have an extension in Windows, but that means you
> can’t double-click a file to open it with the proper app.
>
> You can’t change the file type as you found, (as reported by Windows) but
> you can add or change the extension. Windows will then use the extension to
> determine the file type and associate a default app to open it.
>
> As an experiment, take that same file and change the extension to “.txt”,
> and Windows will now report it as a text file type and open it with your
> default plain text editor. (probably Notepad)
>
> Then change it to “.xls” and observe how Windows changes the type again,
> and what app it associates with it.
>
> *note - a ‘csv’ file (for Comma Separated Values) *is* a plain text file
> with each line a list of values separated by comma. (or other character as
> you happened to designate in the export dialog) Some apps that read csv
> will accept any separator or let you specify on import. Some choke on
> anything but a comma. GnuCash gives you the flexibility to choose what you
> need.
>
> The problem you found isn’t a problem with GnuCash, it is a limitation of
> how the Windows OS recognizes files.
>

*Point taken.*

>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>
> > On Mar 29, 2020 w14d89, at 6:12 PM, Adrian Yong <
> adrianyong.88park at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > *Your Point No. 5 is interesting.*
> >
> > Gnucash's instruction is Export XXXXX to csv. One would be led to believe
> > that the file type is automatically csv. But in reality, you are saying
> > that it can export to any format provided you specify the file type as an
> > extension to the filename.
> >
> > All your other comments are relevant if we get this file type
> specification
> > step correct.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrian
> >
>
>
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