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I use galeon to check all my accounts and to pay my bills via the web, dont need any software to do this, m$ or not.<BR>
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:24, Greg Neumann wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>Connecting to the bank? Doubt it. Why should they work w/ something
that's free when they can probably get a bribe ...er ... consideration
from M$ to push Money? I wonder if M$ tried to trademark "Money" yet.
IIRC, Gnucash was very close, if not capable, of importing from Money,
and they were working on the bank connection. Sorry, I haven't checked
lately. I just wish I could get my wife to use ANY computer based
banking programs! ;-)
Check Gnucash's latest release, anyway.
-Greg
JJ Neff wrote:
>BUT, the big question is, are there any that will import my Money files cleanly
>(no having to export every single account to a QIF and then trying to fangle
><-technical term... it back into some order).
>
>Also will this app connect to my bank and import my Electronic statments and
>allow me to pay bills from the account. These thigs are so ingrained in use (I
>finally got my wife to manage the accounts a little) it is too hard to give up.
> I even tried to download the electronic bank statement and balance that way
>but that left me with double entries (not double entry bookkeeping just two
>entries :-)
>
>Anyway as much as I hate it - many banks only support MS for electronic banking
>and while I will relearn or redo just about anything to switch to a Linux
>capable product, I can't find a comparable money mgt app.
>
>I haven't given up hope that one will be around -- What are some bigname for
>pay apps?
>
>
>--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Well, there are a few. There's gnucash, gcompte, gnofin, etc. (search for
>>finance on freshmeat.net) for the free softwarefolks. There's a number of
>>pay
>>for products out there, too...
>>
>>cheers!
>>
>>Bob
>>--- Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Have to be able to use MS Money)
>>>
>>>I really wish there a better alternative than gnumoney, because I am in
>>>the same boat. Anyone know of a viable Linux money package?
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:05, JJ Neff wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I was coming to that conclusion... I was gonna format a smallish
>>>>
>>>>
>>partition
>>
>>
>>>>~750MB with Fat and use a DOS bootdisk. Still have to reboot to play but
>>>>
>>>>
>>>don't
>>>
>>>
>>>>have to be in Windows...
>>>>
>>>>Oh well. I haven't given up entirely, I want to try DosEMU with a DOS
>>>>
>>>>
>>boot
>>
>>
>>>disk
>>>
>>>
>>>>(still having trouble even getting a CDROM loaded in DosEMU) I may be
>>>>
>>>>
>>>having
>>>
>>>
>>>>some problems with Supermount and dosemu and the cd not sure yet...
>>>>
>>>>I actually thought I was the only Daggerfall player ever! :-) I have
>>>>Battlespire as well but didn't enjoy it as much.
>>>>
>>>>Come to think of it some of my favorite games EVER were DOS, Tombraider,
>>>>Daggerfall, BioForge, but of course that leaves out Half-Life and RTCW
>>>>
>>>>
>>>(which
>>>
>>>
>>>>I consider Linux games:-).
>>>>
>>>>I hope to try NWN tonight as I downloaded the Linux Resources and Linux
>>>>
>>>>
>>>client
>>>
>>>
>>>>and Linux updates - but to free up enough space I'll have to format my
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Windows
>>>
>>>
>>>>Partitions :-O !!! (Now that I have VMware running Win98 that is not as
>>>>scary... Have to be able to use MS Money)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>JJN
>>>>--- Greg Neumann <dadneumann@adelphia.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Wow! Another Daggerfall addict! Hey, Daggerfall is tricky enough to
>>>>>get to run in native DOS, let alone an emulator! My solution is to
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>just
>>
>>
>>>>>have a DOS partition. Of course, I'm very much resigned to having
>>>>>Daggerfall crash in DOS at least once every session. Running it in
>>>>>Win98 works about the same, and getting sound support is iffy at best.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I gave up on Win95. I rather doubt you'll ever get good Daggerfall
>>>>>performance in an emulation, as the game itself is far from stable. If
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>you have any luck, please post.
>>>>>-Greg
>>>>>
>>>>>JJ Neff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I tried Wine, DOSEMU and FreeDos, I just can't seem to get DaggerFall
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>to
>>
>>
>>>run
>>>
>>>
>>>>>in
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Linux. It's a Dos6 game that came out prior to Win95.
>>>>>>I tried DosBox and that site has a note specifically about Daggerfall
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>that
>>>
>>>
>>>>>it
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>segfaults and sure enough it did.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Wine started the install but then froze and wouldn't let me click
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>anything
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>(mouse problem?) and Dosemu doesn;t seem to want to find the CDrom to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>run
>>>
>>>
>>>>>the
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any help? easy to follow web sites or suggestions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>JJN
>>>>>>
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>>>Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com>
>>>
>>>
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