[GNC] Closing out QB Pro?!

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

I misused Quicken; clearly I intended to say Intuit. As in, there is still no documentation about Intuit's qbx format, while its other formats (qfx, etc.) are well documented. 

I'm reasonably certain that I made no mention of text editors. In fact, I'm reasonably sure I suggested that OP cut over to GnuCash without attempting to get their data migrated. What part of my message led you to believe that I was suggesting they use a text editor? 

⁣David T. ​

On Nov 17, 2024, 6:03 PM, at 6:03 PM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I will also note that while there is information online about
>Quicken's *other* formats, there is nothing about how a QBX file is
>structured. This suggests that OP will not find any help with
>converting into a GnuCash friendly format.
>
>Please ... watch the distinction between "Quicken" and "QuickBooks". 
>Although both by "Intuit", the issues doing from one of these to
>gnucash 
>are not the same.
>
>Also, advising folks "use a text editor" (manual editing process) is OS
>
>dependent. Those using a 'nix OS should be aiming for a script (shell 
>language program) to do the editing in-line. Any of the 'nix shell 
>languages (we each have our favorite) plus the library of standard 'nix
>
>utilities constitutes a complete language (fundamental data type 
>"string", and a powerful one at that*)
>
>Michael D Novack
>
>* and why today nobody uses the computer language SNOBOL (50'S-60'S). 
>When I returned to IT (~1979) it was in the IBM mainframe environment 
>(CPU's actually Crays). So the first shell language I learned was
>CLIST. 
>At that time, I devised a little "case problem" to convince myself I 
>understood. The problem:
>
>     Prompt for entry of a string; determine if a palindrome by TEXT 
>palindrome rules (arithmetic palindrome rules trivially easy); report 
>answer and prompt for another string (or "goodby")
>
>My CLIST solution was more than a hundred lines. Following that, I used
>
>the same case problem with each new shell language or even regular 
>computer language I was learning. To give you a sense of the power of a
>
>'nix shell + library, my solution using bash + library was the order of
>
>a hundred CHARACTERS (on five lines for clarity)
>
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