[PLUG] graphical calculator and a tip on the Pacifier problem ...

Petcher, Danielx J danielx.j.petcher at intel.com
Wed Apr 16 10:13:02 UTC 2003


I've heard noises that gnucash is almost there with your bank download
requirement. It works in Germany and it works with the OFX protocol. Which
banks use OFX today? I don't know. Check their web-page www.gnucash.org for
details:

- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open
Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The
development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction
matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support: 
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German
Home Banking 
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download,
initiate bank 
    transfers and direct debits.

-djp
 
Daniel Petcher
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Johnson [mailto:russj at dimstar.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: Michael Robinson
> Cc: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] graphical calculator and a tip on the Pacifier
> problem...
> 
> * Michael Robinson <michael at ns1.robinson-west.com> [2003-04-16 00:41]:
> > She also wants quicken but a google search turned up that
> > there is no Linux version and that there is some Java substitute, but
> you
> > have to buy it and convert your data files.  Trouble is people feed
> their
> > Quicken stuff into TurboTax.  Is there any replacement for TurboTax
> under
> > KDE or better yet GNOME.
> 
> This has been my "Golden BB" for several years. I'm addicted to keeping
> my finances on my computer, and in turn, reconciling what my bank and my
> computer say on a fairly regular basis (several times a week).
> 
> For me, the important part is having an app that will connect to, and
> download the transactions from, the bank, automatically. So far, only MS
> Money and Quicken do this. Unfortunately, both are Windows only.
> 
> The only way I can do this, is to run VMWare with some form of Windows,
> and then run the financial app of my choosing inside that. I suppose I
> could dual boot, but that means I have to shutdown my linux box, and
> then, what's the point?
> 
> I've heard noises that Quicken will run in wine. I've never been able to
> get anything other than notepad and solitaire to run in wine. Even those
> were unstable, and didn't seem very reliable. I just wouldn't want to
> trust my financial data to something that crashed while running notepad.
> At least VMWare doesn't crash.
> 
> --
> Russ Johnson
> Dimension 7/Stargate Online
> http://www.dimstar.net





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