Re: Any open source console mode accounts packages available for Linux?
Greg Russell
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> 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
has a shell defined in its /etc/passwd entry may be accessed from the
console, and the code for that shell is certainly open source.
Harald Meyer
>> 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)
Tom Anderson
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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Mark Hobley
> "Mark Hobley" <markh...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote in message
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>
>> 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).
Mark.
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The Natural Philosopher
> In alt.comp.software.financial Greg Russell <grus...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> "Mark Hobley" <markh...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote in message
>> news:c31c77-...@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.
>
The Natural Philosopher
> In uk.comp.os.linux The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Probably your best bet is to dredge up something that reliably ran on
>> MSDOS 2, and run WINE, or port it.
>
> (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.
>
> 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.
Nix
> 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.)
Mark Hobley
> 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.
Sidney Lambe
<markh...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
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> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are
> available on Linux.
????????!!!!
Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with
a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript
(though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do
mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web
server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF
files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor
and create web pages and compile complex software and download
music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a
superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present
-- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far
exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.)
Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with
a system load average of 7%.
I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them
require a GUI.
I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps
easily available for free.
I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
just for starters.
Sid
Baho Utot
Why?
Sidney Lambe
Wow. Someone who is even stupider than the guy I responded to
here. I wouldn't have thought that was possible.
<plonk>
Sid
Baho Utot
Oh wow, I've been plonked by the Sid again!
Seeing that he doesn't read my replies how is that possible?