From: Greg Russell on 19 Mar 2010 21:40 "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 19 Mar 2010 22:45 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 I suspect anything that old is likely to have drifted considerably out of date.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 20 Mar 2010 04:08 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 20 Mar 2010 05:08 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 20 Mar 2010 08:17
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 |