[Kmymoney] KMM misbehaves after trying to install qif

[aga]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:02:34 -0700 (PDT)
Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Jack, reading in Quicken 10 help it does not say it can export a qif
> file in a format that other money programs can read.  You can export
> reports that can be read by spread sheet programs and even word
> processing programs but not transactions.  
> 
> 
> The output of  file date.qif is :  ASCII text, with CRLF line
> terminators.  So I tried opening with text ed again and it opened
> this time.  Just a long document in one column.  Progress?
> 
> gary
> --------------
> Please post the first five to ten lines of the file here - you can
> change any account numbers or actual amounts.  Then we can confirm
> whether or not it is really a QIF file.  
> 
> 
> However, the CRLF means it was exported on a PC.  I'm pretty sure KMM
> will read it correctly with either PC or Linux line endings (can
> someone confirm this?) ...

I've imported Quicken files many times, without line-ending problems.
But, that was v2002.

> ...but just as a test you could try "dos2linux <
> date.qif > newdate.qif" to change the line endings and see if that
> copy will import.
> 
> Jack