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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brooks Rimes [mailto:brooksrimes@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:29 AM
> To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RT] Downloading Yahoo Quotes
>
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> I don't have Linux, but thanks for the info. I'm a VB guy
> and read a little
> C.
>
> Let me ask a followup question:
>
> How do you know and where do you find out what the various
> parameters mean
> when invoking http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv? For instance
> what do &g &q
> &y &z &x mean and where would you find out if you didn't know?
trial and error. :)
s = symbol
a,b,c = d,m,y of start date
d,e,f = d,m,y of end date
g = "d" for daily, "w" for weekly, "m" for monthly
q = q for quote (don't know what else you can specify)
y = 0 (don't know what this is)
z = same symbol (don't know why it is duplicated)
x = ".csv" (format = csv - don't know what the other formats are)
(as an aside, there is an excellent (free) implementaion of Perl that
runs on Windows, called "active Perl" that runs under windows. Perl has
a lot of libraries for constructing and parsing HTML requests, and it
should be possible to put something together in Perl that fetches Yahoo!
quotes, and then run it under Windows.)
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