#!/usr/bin/perl
	This is a simple perl script to convert Quicken exported
category files to CBB format. To use it, first export the categories
from your accounts by starting up Quicken and exporting ONLY the categories
from each relevant account as a .qif file. I just exported categories from
a checking account which contained all the Quicken defaults and some
personal categories. After rebooting Linux you can "cat" together several
.qif files if necessary. Then run importcat.pl from the cbb
contrib directory as follows:

         importcat.pl file [category file]

where "file" is a Quicken exported .qif file of categories
and "category file" is an optional name of the CBB format
category file, which defaults to "categories" if omitted.
Then just copy this file (rename it "categories") to your 
accounts directory to use it. You can append the CBB defaults if 
you want but there are lots of redundancies with the Quicken defaults.

NOTE: It's better to import the categories before setting up your 
accounts in order to have the CBB account names added to this
categories file. Otherwise you might have to cut and paste accounts 
from your previous categories file.

If you have any trouble with this email me at wright@physics.unc.edu
or the cbbers mailing list. This has only been tested with Quicken3.0
files. Hope this is useful 8^)

Brian Wright


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Department of Physics & Astronomy 	Fax:    (919) 962-0480
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University of North Carolina
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