EBWXSHELL(1p)

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💅 EBWXSHELL(1p) — like, the EekBoek shell, bestie

Ok so real quick, before we get into it: this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your man pages, so that's the vibe check you're working with. Pull up a chair, grab a 🍓, and let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

EekBoek — bookkeeping software for small and medium-size businesses. Yes, that EekBoek. The icon. The moment. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

The graphical EekBoek shell, aka the main character:

ebwxshell

The standalone documentation browser, aka the lowkey side quest:

ebwxshell --showhelp

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So, EekBoek is a bookkeeping package for small and medium-size businesses — and the way it's not like other accounting software is genuinely iconic: it has both a command-line interface (CLI) and a graphical user-interface (GUI). Both!! At the same time!! 💅 On top of that it ships with a complete Perl API so you can go build your own custom applications if that's your thing. No cap.

Also important lore: EekBoek is designed for the Dutch/European market and is currently available in Dutch only. An English translation is in the works — and yes, help is appreciated, so if you're bilingual and bored, 👀.

For an actual description of how to use the program, go look at <http://www.eekboek.nl/docs/index.html>. That's where the real tutorial energy lives.

💀 BUGS AND PROBLEMS 💀

Found a bug? Something acting sus? Please use the eekboek-users mailing list at SourceForge. That's the move. 🫶

🌈 AUTHOR AND CREDITS 🌈

Johan Vromans (jvromans@squirrel.nl) wrote this package. Legend behaviour, honestly. ✨

Web site: <http://www.eekboek.nl>.

Ok bestie, this part is the legally-important part, so read it properly, not just with your eyes. 👁️

This program is Copyright 2005-2017 by Squirrel Consultancy. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

  1. a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
  2. b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. (Yes, that's the shouty part. It's shouty on purpose. 😭)

🧚 Sign-off 🧚

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