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Dear Hal,
Following the advice of John, Anthony and Tomasz, I read message #6338 and
was able to update my database by downloading just the day's data for
11/16 and appending it to the existing files. I had also had trouble
updating 11/15 the night before, and could have missed an opportunity that
would easily have paid for a monthly subscription somewhere where I could
count on having good, reliable, timely data.
Having just laid off 400 employees, I think, as you suggest, the
handwriting in on the wall as far as Yahoo's continuing to provide the
services we have all come to know and love. So we need to keep looking.
BTW, I have had a message to technical support on HQuote within minutes of
your posting, and they have yet to contact me. Pity, isn't it? They are
turning their backs on a potentially large market of new "subscribers". As
it is often said, "Luck is what happens when preparedness meets
opportunity." When the opportunity comes- and you are not prepared, you
merely look ridiculous.
Nate
At 12:16 PM 11/18/01 -0800, you wrote:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> It is becoming clearer and clearer that Yahoo Finance may NOT want to
>continue distributing its data. I say this because I have downloaded
>samples periodically both Yesterday and Today. None of the samples
>contained ANY data for Nov. 16th.
>
> This brings up other possible sources for data which are most compatible
>with AmiQuote. Would you state the current position of the data
>distribution - as you know it?
>
> && NYSE, etc., etc.. This seems to be the service that I would like, but
>I don't want to get the downloads through HQuote.com because Dr. Nates'
>last message told of his difficulty with the speed of the HQuote.coms'
server.
>
> Yesterday when I was at the Quote.com site researching the above
>information, I sent them an e-mail query which requested information on the
>code necessary to download from their site. I have NOT received an answer
>as yet, as the weekends are a poor time to expect any site to be active. So
>Monday, if I receive an answer I will immediately forward it to you, hoping
>that it might help your US market followers cure the present Yahoo problem.
>What I'm working towards is to get you to try to get this answer. One of my
>MAIN problems, is that even if they provide me with information relating to
>the means of access, I won't know what to do with it!
>
> It seems to me, that they would be tempted to provide information to a
>person who might be worth $$'s to them through the users of your program.
>
>"" that could get Quote.com to provide an answer to this problem.
>
> Thanks for Listening,
>
> Hal
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