Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#34817 new request
cbb port suggestion
| Reported by: | spooky130u@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | cbb |
Description
This is not so much a port request, it's more of a port suggestion. There is a check book balancing program called cbb (checkbook balancer) that I have been using since at least the mid-90s, possibly even farther back. Unlike the other checkbook programs I've seen for the Mac, cbb does not require you to remember to use negative values for debits and positive values for credits---it has an entry field for both. It also makes balancing your checkbook very simple.
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Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Port: | cbb added |
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| Summary: | port suggestion → cbb port suggestion |
| Version: | 2.1.1 |
comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Changed 12 years ago by spooky130u@…
| Attachment: | cbb-0.8.1.tar.gz added |
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comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by spooky130u@…
Replying to ryandesign@…:
Can you provide a URL to this project? "checkbook balancer" is a pretty generic name and there seems to be more than one project by that name.
Oh, great...went to attach it before finishing this, and everything I wrote is gone. Thanks to the permanent aftermath of my first cancer, my memory works about as well as my cast net works to hold water, but I'll try to summarize.
cbb, as far as I can tell, has vanished from the 'net, but it is still by far the best checkbook program I've seen, especially when compared to those for MacOS X. Everything I found tonight for links (not what I found...and didn't bookmark...before) is listed, along with the same file I attached (cbb0.8.1.tar.gz), an UNOFFICIAL patch (0.8.2), and an online man page (with all dead links) are posted on one of my two sites, http://www.jstrack.org. If desired/necessary/asked, I can put it on my other site, http://jdgapps.org as well. Just ask and it's there.
Please don't let the fact that it's old, and will probably never have a new version dissuade you. This is still a great checkbook program.
Note that cbb works with PERL 5 and Tk 8.4.x (which, in turn, requires Tcl/Tk 8.4.x). After not finding a MacPorts Tcl/Tk 8.4.19, I used the ActiveTcl 8.4.19 dmg. There was one issue, which I can't remember (cancer #1 again) that I, not knowing PERL at all, managed to hack out, where something was on the system, but not found by cbb. I'm sure that this won't be an issue for those far more familiar with the Mac than I am, as I only got this about 2 months ago....
Thanks,
--jim
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Looks like it lives here now: http://gna.org/projects/cbb
Can you provide a URL to this project? "checkbook balancer" is a pretty generic name and there seems to be more than one project by that name.