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["Walter Lake" <wlake@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dale

Thanks for your email

By synchronous, I mean that the code does not proceed past the statement
until the transfer is complete. Asynchronous transfer refers to issuing the
request then moving on to the next line of code. Synchronous is the simpler
code but I believe is slower because concurrent transfers don't occur.

As far as my own download needs, my commodities downloader stopped working
and I need to download historical and end-of-day Corn contracts etc. C=
corn,  0= year 2000, K = May

Contract Months are
Dec (Z), Mar (H), May (K), Jul (N), Sep (U)

C0H 990312 2500 2516 2500 2500 1551 9328 5
C0K 990312 2552 2560 2546 2552 25 683 5
C0N 990312 2584 2596 2576 2582 206 2343 5
C0Z 990312 2580 2584 2580 2582 176 2061 5
C9H 990312 2170 2176 2154 2156 4570 5128 5
C9K 990312 2244 2246 2220 2226 33167 134420 5
C9N 990312 2296 2304 2274 2290 10713 102617 5
C9U 990312 2360 2366 2340 2350 924 24124 5
C9Z 990312 2440 2444 2424 2426 10047 70082 5

either from
http://router.minot.com/~bohl/index.html
http://router.minot.com/~bohl/history/990312

CH99,d,03/12/99,2170,2176,2154,2156,,
CK99,d,03/12/99,2244,2246,2220,2226,,
CN99,d,03/12/99,2296,2304,2274,2290,,
CU99,d,03/12/99,2360,2366,2340,2350,,
CZ99,d,03/12/99,2440,2444,2424,2426,,
CH00,d,03/12/99,2500,2516,2500,2500,,
CK00,d,03/12/99,2552,2560,2546,2552,,
CN00,d,03/12/99,2584,2596,2576,2582,,
CZ00,d,03/12/99,2580,2584,2580,2582,,

or from http://www.jackcarl.com/ascii/dailyhist.asc


The ".igy" file listed at
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/excel/webquery/samples.htm

only contains a few commodity markets (not corn) at

http://cnnfn.com/markets/commodities.html


So this is what I have to set up.

Other commodity markets can be added once the initial template is organized.

Best regards

Walter