Re: Quicken under debian
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On Friday 28 June 2002 07:59 pm, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
> Neal Lippman <nl@lippman.org> writes:
> > I am wondering if anyone could recommend a solution for using
> > Quicken on my debian woody system. Quicken is essentially the ONLY
> > windows application that I still need, and thus is the only reason
> > that my laptop still has windows98 loaded on it.
>
> I was in exactly the same situation for several months. Then I put
> Vmware on my machine and that was better than having a dedicated
> Windows laptop. But, it still wasn't good enough because I just hated
> using it. Windows was an abomination on my otherwise pleasant
> machine. Also, Vmware takes too long to boot and is a lot of overhead
> just to run a check book balancing program.
Right here is where you made a mistake. :--) NEVER close it until you
SUSPEND your guest O/S. Then, it pops right open, and all you have to do is
RESUME and Windon't is ready to give you all the bsod that you can ask for.
All of my O/S's are running, albeit SUSPENDED. It takes seconds to open
VMWare AND the O/S within.
> So, I made the jump to
> cbb (check book balancer) and have been quite happy with it. It does
> not supply all the stuff Quicken does, but it does a lot and if you
> want something you can write it up. Also, I have come to like being
> able to see my databases in Emacs!
>
> cbb imported my quicken files pretty well. If I remember correctly, I
> had to edit the date and/or entry number because it wasn't in the form
> cbb was expecting. This was a while ago, though, so it might work
> now. Also, I was using an old Quicken.
>
> HTH.
>
> Brian Flaherty
Have a Grand Day, Brian! (which is likely cuz yer running a REAL O/S) :--)
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