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From: Harald Meyer on 19 Mar 2010 15:03
Greg Russell wrote:

>> 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"? Any user account that

Note the crosspost to alt.comp.software.financial , I think he means
bank accounts rather than Unix user accounts.


Harald (was confused too)
From: Tom Anderson on 19 Mar 2010 15:47
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Harald Meyer wrote:

> Greg Russell wrote:
>
>>> 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"? Any user account
>> that
>
> Note the crosspost to alt.comp.software.financial , I think he means
> bank accounts rather than Unix user accounts.

Or perhaps even accounts payable and receivable. Double-entry bookkeeping,
revenue recognition, general ledger, closing, all that stuff. I have no
idea what any of that means, but it sounds even nastier than the SysV IPC
interfaces.

tom

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From: The Natural Philosopher on 19 Mar 2010 18:37
Mark Hobley wrote:
> In alt.comp.software.financial Greg Russell <grussell(a)invalid.com> wrote:
>> "Mark Hobley" <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote in message
>> news:c31c77-32q.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).
>

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..maybe there's a freeware
of an old packahge out there..

Also there used to be at least when I was looking. many SCO UNIX
accounting packages designed for 80x25 terminals.

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



> Mark.
>
From: The Natural Philosopher on 19 Mar 2010 20:18
Theo Markettos wrote:
> In uk.comp.os.linux 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.
>
> 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). There's enough
> DOS software on the net as abandonware so you should be able to try a range
> of apps.
>
> Getting something to talk modern file formats might be a bit of a challenge,
> though.
>
> You're allowed to use a more recent version of DOS, though :) FreeDOS is,
> err, free.
>
>> Also there used to be at least when I was looking. many SCO UNIX
>> accounting packages designed for 80x25 terminals.
>>
>> Im sure they still exist somewhere, but they tend to be non-free as teh
>> support is necessary and expensive.
>
> Yes, if you're doing any kind of business accounting support may be an
> issue. I have no idea if big software companies still support customers
> that refuse to upgrade because they use the software in some
> business-critical role.
>

Oh yes. People are still writing RPG on ageing IBM mainframes..and COBOL
too.


> This list looks interesting:
> http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html
> See also the links at the bottom.
>
> Theo

One point worth mentioning, is that if you are using software to prepare
official accounts for tax audits, it needs to be in some way certified.
That is not a feature of freeware.
From: alexd on 20 Mar 2010 04:56
If there isn't a console-based one available, but you know of a
web-based one, you could use a console web browser to access it.

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