FM 4 Export QIF output comment/request

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First, thanks for the export in QIF format!
Now some questions and suggestions:

Does FM 4.0 use double-precision floating-point, or
am I still going to see occaisional rounding errors
for amounts of more than 7 digits (dollars and cents)?

I'd like the prices, shares, and monitary amounts in
QIF files generated by FM 4.0 to round values a
the number of decimal digits specified in Preferences
(may need a new preference to control decimal digits
for the total amount of any transaction) to avoid
these results like these that don't match the "real
world" of dollars and cents:

D7/14/97
NBuy
YVanguard Ttl Stk Idx
I21.510002
Q92.980000
T1,999.999986
^

The price (I) is less important to me than the shares
(Q) and amount (T) because I use the latter two to
track tax basis/gain.

P.S. It would also be nice if FM would round these
values on the windows used to enter transactions to
avoid confusion when FM changes an entered (precise)
value to some floating-point approximation.

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• Re: FM 4 Export QIF output comment/request Mark 20:23:42 4/12/99 (0)