IOFDB
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What this program does
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Iofdb is a personal finance database for those who are willing to
accept that the information it manages (accounts, holdings, prices
and balances) is not totally up to date if that means they don't have 
to enter details or acknowledge of every transaction they make. 

IOFDB can:

    * prompt the user for details of a new account, including whether 
      the account holds currency (e.g. USD), listed stocks (e.g. nasdaq/NTL.I) 
      or unlisted stocks (my-unused-laundry-tokens)
    * prompt the user for current holdings (the current balance of a single 
      account)
    * retrieve prices for currencies and listed stocks from the internet
    * prompt the user for the price of unlisted stocks
    * calculate the user's balance based on current holdings and current 
      prices
    * produce simple reports detailing current accounts, holdings, prices 
      and balances (e.g. current holdings)
    * produce simple reports detailing accounts, holdings, prices and 
      balances since records began (e.g. current prices of currently held 
      stocks, USD/EUR prices over time)
    * draw graphs of these things

Iofdb stands for Information Oriented Finance DataBase. It is written 
in Perl and uses SQLite as a database back-end.

Installation
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Installation instructions are provided in two files:

    * doc/INSTALL.generic
    * doc/INSTALL

The first describes generic installation instructions for any
ADE-based application. The second describes any special instructions
for this application. INSTRUCTIONS IN INSTALL OVERRIDE INSTRUCTIONS
IN INSTALL.generic.

You should read both before you begin installation.

Copyright
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Iofdb is (C) 2004-ADE_APP_TOKEN_RELEASE_YEAR and is distributed under the terms
of the GPL.

Latest release, bugs, contacting the author, ...
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See http://dione.no-ip.org/AlexisWiki/IOFDB.