User Interface Issues

[Steve Holmes]

That's good to know. I know that my institution, Desert Schools Federal
Credit Union packs up that kind of data in a nice tab delimitted file -
easy to read even in a text editor! I'll probably use their file format as
a typical deal for batch data entry.

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > ... As this thing evolves, I wouldn't mind seeing
> > what could be done to "hook it up" to financial institutions like they do
> > with Quicken and Money. They probably use a licensed protocle that would
> > require a fee or something but that would be a long ways from what I'm
> > starting with. ....
>
> Actually, the latest trend in online banking is that the client no longer
> connects to the bank. Instead, you chose to have the bank package the data
> into a file that can then be imported into your program. I won't try to be
> an armchair lawyer commenting about the legality of reverse engineering
> the file structure. But if you wanted this type of thing, that seems like
> the way to go. In fact, it might be interesting if you could work with the
> files from say Quicken.
>
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> Kirk Wood
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