[GNC] Starting from Scratch

[Michael Brady]

FWIW, Libreoffice (Windows, Mac, and Linux) can open and edit Lotus 
1-2-3 files. Can't save in that format, though; it's good only for 
import. Libreoffice only saves, in normal use, as ODT or Excel.

Also FWIW, Libreoffice can import Quattro Pro (QP4 for DOS and QP6 for 
Windows) including all tabs/sheets from the Windows version. Used it 
recently to view some old QP4 files from the 1990s during a bit of 
research into old stock transactions.

Haven't checked on Visicalc compatibility - all of my Visicalc files are 
long gone anyway, and if a floppy turns up that is labeled as having 
such files it's unreadable anyway - would be on a Radio Shack Model 1 
LDOS or TRSDOS disk, which is no longer readable with modern hardware (5 
1/4" drives are no longer usable even if you find one). Back In The Day, 
there was DOS software for PCs/compatibles that could read Radio Shack 
disks using the PC's 5 1/4" floppy drives (RS disks used a very 
different format from the PCs, but the same physical drives could be 
used). IIRC, the software could also read some pre-IBM-PC CP/M disks.

Isn't digital archaeology fun?

3 cheers for gnucash, btw. I tried several bookkeeping programs in an 
earlier life, and none ever really clicked for me. GC just works. Use 
the same data file (on Onedrive) in both Windows 11 and Linux. Main 
issue with Linux is not the files; it's getting access to Onedrive, 
which I found a fairly reliable and currently-maintained utility for 
(abraunegg Onedrive client: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive).

Mike Brady
Plain OLD User

(edited to remove other-topic discussion) On 4/30/2026 9:00, 
gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:15 -0500
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Starting from scratch
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> And for those interested and do not have a copy of 1-2-3 for DOS to use,
> there is a free Linux-native port out there...
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> Regards,
> Adrien
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> On 4/28/26 6:56 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>> DOS App? I must say wow!
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>> 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.
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> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> To: adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Starting from scratch
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> Wow!  Adrien, could you share a search topic to find a link to that Linux
> native port?
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 4:17?PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>> And for those interested and do not have a copy of 1-2-3 for DOS to use,
>> there is a free Linux-native port out there...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On 4/28/26 6:56 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>>> 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.
>>