[GNC] Starting from scratch

[Kalpesh Patel]

DOS App? I must say wow!

123 is likely reference to Lotus 123 DOS program which was a spreadsheet in essence. Modern day MS Excel and its brethren's can import its files easily. From there you can post process it and export it into CSV format, do some more post processing if needed and then import it into GNC.

-----Original Message-----
From: Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 5:48 PM
To: Elliot Graham <elliotgraham94 at gmail.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Starting from scratch

Yes, MYM 12 for DOS.  Yes, printing to file is an option, but so is output to 123, which I am investigating.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 8:41 AM Elliot Graham <elliotgraham94 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As in managing your money (the dos app)? Why wouldn’t you print to 
> file and then simply parse it?
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 15:59, Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> MYM 12.  I don't think such scripts exist.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 2:49 PM Elliot Graham 
>> <elliotgraham94 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Clint, what platform are you importing from? There’s a good 
>>> chance someone has written a script
>>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 22:36, Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, (soon to be) new user here.  I have almost 40 years of 
>>>> transactions, in programs that are incapable of exporting, so I'll 
>>>> have to start entering them in manually.
>>>>
>>>> What strategies have people used in the past when starting up GnuCash?
>>>> I
>>>> sorta understand for normal "cash" transactions I can probably just 
>>>> start entering in transactions for the current year, but can the 
>>>> starting balance be changed as I work my way backwards?
>>>>
>>>> For stocks and mutual funds, should I start at the beginning and 
>>>> work my way forward?  I'm not sure just how clean it is to start 
>>>> entering current transactions and then work my way backwards, 
>>>> especially given that account fees are taken FIFO from the first 
>>>> purchase in the mutual fund.
>>>>
>>>> Mortgage may be interesting, or simple.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, USA user.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>>>
>>>
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