From: Greg Russell on
"Mark Hobley" <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote in message
news:oa8d77-khq.ln1(a)neptune.markhobley.yi.org...

>> Does anyone know if there are any open source console mode accounts
>> packages available for Linux?
> >
> > What precisely do you mean by "console mode accounts"?
>
> Sorry, I meant accountancy packages that run in console mode (ie do not
> require X11).

Oh, you mean "accounting" --
http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux_general_ledger/ might be of interest to
you.


From: Nix on
On 19 Mar 2010, The Natural Philosopher outgrape:
> Probably your best bet is to dredge up something that reliably ran on
> MSDOS 2, and run WINE, or port it.

I suspect anything that old is likely to have drifted considerably out
of date. Laws change, and accountancy packages have to chantge with
them.

(oh, and btw, WINE is probably a worse bet here than dosbox. It's
amazing what dosbox can do.)
From: Mark Hobley on
In alt.comp.software.financial Theo Markettos <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> That was what I did when I wanted a console spreadsheet... ran Lotus 1-2-3
> (or whatever it was) in a DOS emulator (dosbox or dosemu).

Yeah. I liked the DOS version of Lotus 123. I was looking for a console mode
spreadsheet to replace this on Linux. The best I could find was a package
called oleo. which provides a console mode spreadsheet for Linux. I am hoping
to reengineer this at a later date to provide keyboard and menu compatibility
with Lotus.

--
Mark Hobley
Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/

From: Mark Hobley on
In alt.comp.software.financial The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Probably your best bet is to dredge up something that reliably ran on
> MSDOS 2, and run WINE, or port it.
> Half of that era ran interpreted BASIC anyway.

Yeah. I am from that era :)

We had tons of console mode applications for almost everything. I wrote
an accounts package and almost all of the applications that I used
(except Lotus 123, which was already written and came bundled with the
computer).

I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are available on
Linux.

> Im sure they still exist somewhere, but they tend to be non-free as teh
> support is necessary and expensive.

Yeah. I definitely need open source software.

Mark.

--
Mark Hobley
Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/

From: John Hasler on
Nix writes:
> I suspect anything that old is likely to have drifted considerably out
> of date. Laws change, and accountancy packages have to chantge with
> them.

Depends on where you live. Here in Wisconsin we are merely required to
maintain records adequate to justify our deductions. The details are up
to us. We would get into no trouble at all by using decades old
accounting software.
--
John Hasler
jhasler(a)newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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